Galley copy of Absence of the Hero

[mjp]

Yeah, see, it confused me at first. But we're cool now. Paul is coming over for a wine tasting on Sunday, and we're going to do our nails. Don't be jealous, haters!

 

[roni]

I like his Thoreau-notebooks-project though.

 

[mjp]

Yeah, it's perfect for him, seeing as it requires no creativity.

 

[Stavrogin]

How many Paul Maher, Jr's are there that would be in to Miles Davis, Thoreau and Kerouac. Is this the same fellow as this? Biographer extraordinaire to fashion photographer-indie filmmaker?! What ambition! Networking nirvana!! And all I want to do with my life is grill the perfect steak.

 

[mjp]

Is this the same fellow as this?

Those photographs are dull, lifeless and utterly unoriginal, so I can see why you would think they are the same person.

But seeing as Junior and I are now such close friends, I'm going to have to ask you stop insinuating that he is a dull, unimaginative hack, desperately sucking at the dry bones of dead men for a few pennies. I simply won't stand for it.

 

[Stavrogin]

FTW!!