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I thought it was going to be something like the Albee play.
I had been a poet until then, not thinking of writing fiction, andMrs.
Dalloway, let me know you could do in fiction what I wanted to do in poetry.
Pale Horse, Pale Rider, by Katherine Anne PorterPorter accomplishes an extraordinary amount in a few pages.
I read it every day for ten years.
Do you save a town if it means sacrificing a child?
Is freedom a gift or an impossible burden for weak creatures such as ourselves?
Is love possible or a delusion?
I think often of its great last line: What does it matter?
