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Men of Krim's age, aspirations, and level of sophistication were typically involved in politics before the war.
They did not `` duck the war '' but they fought in it, however reluctantly ; ;
they sweated out some kind of formal education ; ;
they read widely and eclectically ; ;
they did not fall into pseudo-glamorous jobs on pseudo-glamorous magazines, but they did whatever nasty thing they could get in order to eat ; ;
they found out who they were and what they could do, then within the limits of their talent they did it.
They did not worry about `` experience '', because experience thrust itself upon them.
And they traveled out of New York.
Only a native New Yorker could believe that New York is now or ever was a literary center.
It is a publishing and public relations center, but these very facts prevent it from being a literary center because writers dislike provincialism and untruth.
Krim's typicality consists only in his New Yorker's view that New York is the world ; ;
he displays what outlanders call the New York mind, a state that the subject is necessarily unable to perceive in himself.
The New York mind is two parts abstraction and one part misinformation about the rest of the country and in fact the world.
In his fulminating against the literary world, Krim is really struggling with the New Yorker in himself, but it's a losing battle.

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