Tyler Cowen: evaluation

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…I’m doing the best I can. I was once with a woman in her house, and her son was there, and he was a big strong kid, like 21 or something, and he really worked out and was a strong guy. And she was trying to tell him to be careful about something and bad people in the world. He’s, “I’d like to see somebody who could” — he used the f-word — “fuck me up.” I didn’t say anything, but I’m like, “All it’ll take is somebody with a gun, and you’re dead.” He doesn’t know that, and he doesn’t feel that. He probably knows it in his head, but he doesn’t because he’s so strong in the moment. He’s not always going to be like that. Sometimes in your self-accounts, you claim to be confused by social situations, yet in your novels, I would say your remarks are extremely insightful into character and into the human condition. How do you put all that together into one unified theory of Mary Gaitskill? I don’t have one unified theory of Mary Gaitskill.…

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