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“I start to think fear is the most furious part of courage. Knowing how full and real and justified your fears are but still not letting them stop you.”
- Jacob Wren, Rich and Poor (p. 144)
“I must experience everything that is about to happen to me as fully as possible, I must experience it as some kind of joy. I can’t just let it all speed by without living it fully. I can’t let this life or this struggle happen without me.”
- Jacob Wren, Rich and Poor (p. 176)
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[Someone posted these two quotes on Goodreads and, even though I don't remember writing either of them, they struck me as things I was rather happy to have written.]
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Also, I suppose thanks to Luigi Mangione, more people seem to be reading my 2016 novel Rich and Poor. (It’s about a man who washes dishes for a living who decides to kill a billionaire as a political act.)
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April 10, 2025
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Hi jacob, im the person who wrote that goodreads review. I read rich and poor in a fraught week of my life, and the second quote struck me so much that i went and carved it onto a block of wood and printed it. (My first woodcut ever.) i was thinking about courage, steadfastness, incarceration, and what it means to have feelings, and also mahmoud khalil. I just finished reading Polyamorous love song and I loved it even more for its complexity and intrigue. Then i googled you and now im here. Thank you for your work!
PS. i attended CAA this year in new york (it was what made me finally decide to drop out of my phd) and the conference took place in the hotel where luigi did the deed! did u know this? my gf and i did a whole photoshoot at the exact corner on the street where it happened
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