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To paraphrase Truman Capote, finishing a novel is like taking a child out behind the house and shooting it. To which I would hasten to add, that makes critics a bit like stranger who come along later to piss on the corpse.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan Trilobite: The Writing of Threshold (2003)

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