JOHN DAFFY

Incredibly insightful with moments of brilliance. Well, worth laboring across a couple of deserts to get to them. A line to the effect that: "Thomas - you took eighty pages to say she was standing on the station" was a pearler when Wolfe was defending his extreme detail, or verbosity, depending on your viewpoint. Everyone needs a Maxwell Perkins in their life; not everyone needs a Thomas Wolfe - the constant flipping towards each other of two magnets.