Blush invited me to meet with him in his office, where he proceeded to tell me that he thought the book was really quite good. “Subversive!” he kept saying. “So strangely subversive, you understand? It was intentional, right?” and I proclaimed that it was entirely intentional, hoping he wouldn’t keep pressing me on it. He admitted that he had read the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew novels to his eight children, and he had a fondness for them but also an intense irritation with how good everyone in them was. “It’s unnatural for two brothers to not, at some point, beat the absolute shit out of each
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