[P: Written in the margin of the December 15, 1974 entry.] April 3, 1995 "Forgive me please for including… — Mark Z. Danielewski
[P: Written in the margin of the December 15, 1974 entry.]
April 3, 1995
"Forgive me please for including this. An old man's mind is just as likely to wander as a young man's, but where a young man will forgive the stray, and old man will cut it out. Youth always tries to fill the void, and old man learns to live with it. It took me twenty years to unlearn the fortunes found in a swerve. Perhaps this is no news to you but then I have killed many men and I have both legs and I don't think I ever quite equaled the bald gnome Error who comes from his cave with featherless ankles to feast on the mighty dead."173
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