“Reading certain novels is a little like looking through the keyhole to learn what the neighbor is doing and thinking—does he have the same inferiority complex, the same vices, the same temptations?” — Georges Simenon, The Art of Fiction No. 9, The Paris Review, Issue 9, Summer 1955
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And when he doesn’t, we find something worse to pin on him?
Of course. People are not allowed to be dull. A little conjecture will keep everyone amused for years.