Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.
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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
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Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.
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