do I protect and expand it? And what is it people like about me anyway?] And I am weak enough, and easily enough plunged into these little worlds, that it’s just real good for me that I’m not part of it anymore. Easier to say that now, though? With Infinite Jest in magazines and on covers of book reviews? With your readings jammed? I would like to think you’re wrong. Here’s what I was ready for: I am proud of this book. I worked really hard on it. I was pretty sure that it would fall stillborn from the presses. But that within three or four years—like Girl sells better now