A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers

can’t decide what’s more romantic, preservation or decay.

Oscar Wilde wrote, “Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating . . .[they] live the poetry [they] cannot write.”

And in San Francisco, for better or worse, there are no ideas dumb enough to be squashed, or people aren’t honest enough to tell people the truth about their dumb ideas, and so half of us are doing dumb, doomed things—

Why do you want to share your suffering? By sharing it I will dilute it.