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| | The Limits of Sex and Siegel - December 20, 2006 - The New York Sun |
 | | Siegel's loftier ambition, however, is to serve the "ambitions of the true artist struggling to break through all the travesties, inversions, and deformations of his calling to a rich, unfettered imaginative place."With the bar at this height, Mr. |
 | | Siegel, "has near total confidence in her imagined world" and, best of all, "does not use the archness, and the worldliness, and the knowingness to protect herself or to promote herself, to remind us that she is too sophisticated to be taken in by her own fictions."This sets her apart from magic — and, Mr. |
 | | Siegel might have added, hysterical — realists, "who pretend that fantastic occurrences are continuous with reality" and, in so doing, deny readers the opportunity "to believe the unbelievable against all the evidence of reality."And David Foster Wallace wonders why he always got picked last for Quidditch. |
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