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Rebekah Weikel's avatar

Make mystery possible again

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Derek Neal's avatar

Loved this. I often think that to make it in the literary world, one has to think of themselves as a sort of end of the bench player in the NBA--the guy who thinks he deserves to be out there, who knows that if he just gets his shot, he'll prove everyone wrong. This is the attitude of the player who gets garbage time at the end of the game and immediately starts launching three pointers, padding his paltry stats. This sort of delusional, irrational confidence is a paradox, because if you don't have it, you'll never make it, but so many people have it when it's unwarranted. Jeremy Lin is a positive example of this, I think (he famously waved off Kobe to take a last second shot) and the current example is probably Jonathan Kuminga.

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