Was Pompeii better for Rome once he trashed the Republic and bankrupted Rome fighting terrorists?
We’re going to find out soon. Personally I look forward to utter economic collapse and the birth of a new order. Do you enjoy walking to work? I crawl, the bosses seem to prefer it. Plus it saves wear and tear on my bicycle. Any advice you might want to give an aspiring writer? Read everything. And write a lot. Don’t worry if it’s shit, you can always change it later. Much better to have a pile of crap that can be fixed up into something than to worry so much about its quality that you can’t write. Most writing is shit anyway. This will probably include you, so don’t worry about it. Enjoy yourself. Do the best you can. Okay, this sounds flip and negative. But this is the advice I wish I’d gotten when I was starting out. I would have ignored it, of course, but it’s what I needed to hear. In keeping you honest, has this interview so far, kept you honest? Honestly, I can’t tell. I take terrible notes. Do you? I take great notes, but my handwriting is so bad I can never read them afterward
