Chris Via’s Reviews > Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles, and Speeches, 1998-2003 > Status Update

Enjoying some foreplay before 2666. "[Top-notch writing is]...the ability to peer into the darkness, to leap into the void.... The ability to sprint along the edge of the precipice: to one side the bottomless abyss and to the other...the smiling faces you love, and books and friends and food. And the ability to accept what you find, even though it may be heavier than the stones over the graves of all dead writers."