Michael Lewis: uncertainty

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…Wow. You would've killed the book? I might have found a way to do it, but I hadn't found a way to do it. It was always the same conversation with my editor. I just don't know where this is going. I don't know what the end is. When I don't know what the end is, I don't know what the beginning is. It's that simple. It wasn't that, oh, I smelled fraud or anything like that. It didn't have shape to it. It was picker-esque experience after picker-esque experience. It was like Don Quixote, but the first chapter over and over. There was material there, which is why I kept coming back. It was fun. There were endless scenes, but they was just like, I don't know. But scenes don't make a play.…

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