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Excerpt from Appendix A
A further point; or rather two. Meredith and the Macmillan Company aside, I'm writing this book because it must be written. Must. You'll see. If the things I am going to say can't be put down here at last in some kind of decent order, then it will mean the damnation of us all.
Anyway I need your help. Your forbearance, your good will, your trust. If I possessed the genius of a joyce or a Proust - or their blindness, insensibility, pigheadedness, whatever it was that enabled them to scrawl out on paper, year after year, all their own purga tions and self - betrayals - I still could not say clearly what must be said in this book. Not clearly enough, that is. It could never be clear enough. We must muddle along and h0pe for the end, recognizing that none of us may get out of this with his skin. I shall be calling on you often - and quite directly, though I know this runs counter to all the rules of fashionable writing - for your help.
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