When It Gets Dark by Thomas DeBaggio

Author:Thomas DeBaggio
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DECEMBER 4, 1995

Dear Kathleen,

My bluster hides a tender insecurity. At its heart is the desire to control and manipulate the world, a large order for any kid from Iowa. When editors tinker, they tell me I was right to feel insecure and threatened. I am a writer without formal training and I have to inflate myself artificially to begin tapping the keys that produce words and sentences. What little talent I have is vulnerable to attack by every pencil pusher with a green eyeshade.

Linda Ligon has always been at the top of my list as an editor; she can massage my ego and shape my sentences, and make me feel good about it most of the time. A great editor can divine the meaning behind a clumsy paragraph and wrestle it into the light. You are a worthy successor to Linda and your bedside manner is from the same clinic.

Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first…. In order to know himself, each person carries his own Book of Life, which is filled with the history of his life…. Without his Book of Life, a person is a snapshot, a two-dimensional image, a ghost.

—ALAN LIGHTMAN, Einstein’s Dreams

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