Literature is a long game
A while back, I linked to a Neal Stephenson interview. It was much blogged at the time. I called attention to an interesting discussion of commercial and literary writing; many others called attention to the funniest part.
In a fight between you and William Gibson, who would win?
You don’t have to settle for mere idle speculation. Let me tell you how it came out on the three occasions when we did fight.
I missed it at the time, but, not long after, William Gibson referred to this on his blog.
I would have liked to have gotten him permanently out of the way shortly after reading Snow Crash, of course, but I could already see that I would need him one day to help battle Bruce Sterling. Literature is a long game.
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