Claire Keegan

I submitted the story to The New Yorker pretty much as it is now.

And the changes were made by the editor.

And then I put the story back the way I wanted when it was published as a story by Faber.

So the changes that were made, almost all of them were made by Deborah Treisman, who's the editor of The New Yorker.

I was okay for the publication in the New Yorker, but I always knew that I would put it back the way I wanted it after it was published in the magazine.

Isn't that lovely?

I don't think so.

I think he's ruined.

I mean, I think he was spoiled.

And another word for spoiled in the way we use English here is the word ruined.

And it means your personality is ruined.

And what that means in terms of being spoiled is that you won't ever in your life really be willing to do things you don't want to do to have a better life, which means that it's kind of hopeless.

Yeah.

And it's certainly hopeless with regard with regards to having a relationship because you just have to do all kinds of things you don't want to do in order to have a good relationship.

And and he's incapable of doing that because he wants to do only what he wants to do to do and to do as little as possible.

And to not do anything well.

And also, it also means that he's not able to shine because I think when we dig deep and we work well and we go beyond what is comfortable, we find out how we can shine.

Yeah.

Yes, of course.

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