On the other hand, he’s managed to harness the low times as a motivating force. “Well if I have to deal with being fucking depressed,” he says, “I’ll figure out some way to make some art out of it.”518 His particular art, though, isn’t the kind that comes with a blueprint. Díaz follows in no one’s footsteps and strives to do things with his writing that haven’t been done already. “If you feel familiar and you feel comfortable, you’re in mapped territory,” he says. “What’s the use of being in mapped territory?”519 Mapping uncharted territory, full of wrong turns and dead ends, by definition
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