"I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea."

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Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.

— Jonathan Franzen