He could treat real life as a fiction, wish away this and will that into existence, manipulate the truth and toy with people’s feelings, leave off the old dead drafts and start over with a new cast of characters whenever the whim struck, trade an Evangeline in for a Barbara and swap Downers Grove for Schaumburg…he could put all the tactics of the writer’s craft to good use in his life, but I was the silly one for making a career of it.
