A brief trip into hell
Perhaps the creative life is just a brief trip into hell.
The moment I write something good, I want to write another good thing. Perhaps better, even, than the last good thing, because damn it all, there are never enough good things.
A form of greed for the good develops.
What is this thing?
Is the good an open pit mine to be extracted from until the ore o…
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