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I don’t recall ever meeting novelist J.M. Coetzee or ever reading anything he wrote, but I have heard secondhand (or thirdhand or morehand) that he “is a man of almost monkish self-discipline and dedication.... A colleague who has worked with him for more than a decade claims to have seen him laugh just once.”
For me this raises at least two questions. First, exactly what was it that he laughed about? It’s gotta be good! And, second, how many Far Side cartoons has he read?
Ohhh, I would welcome a chance to try to make the writer chuckle! Coetzee, Coetzee, koo!
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