To be a writer it is essential to have a disconnect with reality, meaning the present, meaning the status quo. The picture that comes to me is of a man sitting apart from a group. Picture party on a winter day, it's snowing and everybody has eaten, and is cheerful and cozy. But the writer is not subject to the moods of the group. He sits by himself and wonder if this is all as good as everybody is making it out to be.

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