On My Growth As A Writer In The MFA Program
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Caldwell, Matthew
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2018-07
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“Oh my god, why not?” Caroline says. “It’s like someone following you, writing down every detail of everything you ever see. Ever do.”|“Well, that’s the problem,” Bill says. “Every second you stop to read that account is a second you’re missing something in the present.”|Bill Clevenger is a marvel, at least on stage. As The Amazing Clevenger, he astounds 1930s Manhattan as a twenty-year-old escape artist with no peer, enhanced by his secret eidetic memory and a flair for showmanship.|But as Bill, who remembers everything that’s ever happened to him from the age of two, he knows there is a darker side to his gifts. As he tells Caroline, “I don’t like to reminisce. You miss too many moments that way. I don’t look at myself in the mirror, because I don’t care to know that much about myself.” Remembering everything, Bill has come to realize, doesn’t mean you know everything.|When someone arrives at one of his shows, claiming to be a long-lost brother from a family which Bill never knew, Bill realizes that he doesn’t have as much control over his history as he believed. Indeed, even what he takes as truth has been told to him by the most unreliable narrator: his own mind. |Now distracted, Bill has missed things, and continues to do so, and when that flaw in his ego is exposed—even exploited—he may soon find that there are some traps from which even he cannot escape.
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