"I've written more about my parents than any writer in the history of the world, and I still return to their mysterious effigies as I try to figure out what it all meanssome kind of annunciation or maybe even a summing-up They still exert immense control over me even though they've been dead for so long. But I can conjure up their images without exerting a thimbleful of effort."

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"I've written more about my parents than any writer in the history of the world, and I still return to their mysterious effigies as I try to figure out what it all meanssome kind of annunciation or maybe even a summing-up They still exert immense control over me even though they've been dead for so long. But I can conjure up their images without exerting a thimbleful of effort."

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