I would be a genius now,” Quilty has said three times already, “if only I’d memorized Shakespeare instead of Lulu.” “If only,” says Mack. Mack himself would be a genius now if only he had been born a completely different person. But what could you do? He’d read in a magazine once that geniuses were born only to women over thirty; his own mother had been twenty-nine. Damn! So fucking close!
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Lorrie Moore was a contemporary American fiction writer. Lorrie Moore is an American writer, critic, and essayist. She is best known for her short stories, some of which have won major awards. Read more on Wikipedia →