Do you write every day?’ ‘Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don’t work very hard, really. Really I’m on vacation. All the time. Or you could say I work all the time, too. It comes to the same thing.’ He’d said all this before, to others; he wondered if he’d said it to her. ‘It’s like weekend homework. Remember? There wasn’t ever a time you absolutely had to do it – there was always Saturday, then Sunday – but then there wasn’t ever a time when it wasn’t there to do, too.”How awful.’ (“Novelty”)

Do you write every day?’ ‘Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don’t work very hard, really. Really I’m on vacation. All the time. Or you could say I work all the time, too. It comes to the same thing.’ He’d said all this before, to others; he wondered if he’d said it to her. ‘It’s like weekend homework. Remember? There wasn’t ever a time you absolutely had to do it – there was always Saturday, then Sunday – but then there wasn’t ever a time when it wasn’t there to do, too.”How awful.’ (“Novelty”)

– John Crowley –

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940’s Until Now

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