What are novelists for

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arded it as my duty to disguise nothing―the namesthe placesthe exact
circumstances―I put it all there as a matter of historical record. But as a matter of
legal realityso various editors have told me over the yearsmy forensic memoir
could never be published while my fellow criminals were alive. You may only libel
yourself and the dead. The Marshalls have been active about the courts since the late
fortiesdefending their good names with a most expensive ferocity. They could ruin
a publishing house with ease from their current accounts. One might almost think
they had something to hide. Thinkyesbut not write. The obvious suggestions have
been made―displacetransmutedissemble. Bring down the fogs of the
imagination [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]! What are novelists for? Go just so far as is necessaryset up camp
inches beyond the reachthe fingertips of the law. But no one knows these precise
distances until a judgment is handed down. To be safeone would have to be bland
and obscure. I know I cannot publish until they are dead. And as of this morningI
accept that will not be until I am. No goodjust one of them going. Even with Lord
Marshall’s bone-shrunk mug on the obituary pages at lastmy cousin from the north
would not toleryilai:
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