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After Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, where he tracks allusions to whales and cetology, I keep a running list of references to recursion, innovation, mythology, and glamour.

 
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Donna Tartt | THE SECRET HISTORY

"Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside of literature?..."

Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside of literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.
— Donna Tartt | THE SECRET HISTORY
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