a writer's financial situation does not make art immortal.
it cites faulkner, too, and he famously wrote "as i lay dying" while he was broke and working at the university electric plant.
it cites faulkner, too, and he famously wrote "as i lay dying" while he was broke and working at the university electric plant.
That was not the point of the article. The point was that the narrowness of circumstance - living between riches and poverty and what type of person can handle that (not to mention the unique problems that might come up with that) - requires someone that can balance that sort of situation.