Denis Johnson Quote

Everything is arranged, John Robertson told me.Thank God.I forgot to mention that we appear to have one small problem, he said.Okay...Evidently it seems Winston Holder has already left this morning to the border and Gbarnga. He took a journalist in.A journalist? Who?I don't know who. They thought it must be you.But it wasn't me. I'm me, I said, though from the first hour in this country I'd begun to doubt it.I have Lincoln Smythe's address. He'll put us right. Everything will be arranged promptly, and we'll work out your itinerary.I thought everything was arranged, I said.By the bare bulb hung above our straw beds I saw, far back in John Robertson's eyes, the eternal West African question: What is this guy going on about?

Denis Johnson

Everything is arranged, John Robertson told me.Thank God.I forgot to mention that we appear to have one small problem, he said.Okay...Evidently it seems Winston Holder has already left this morning to the border and Gbarnga. He took a journalist in.A journalist? Who?I don't know who. They thought it must be you.But it wasn't me. I'm me, I said, though from the first hour in this country I'd begun to doubt it.I have Lincoln Smythe's address. He'll put us right. Everything will be arranged promptly, and we'll work out your itinerary.I thought everything was arranged, I said.By the bare bulb hung above our straw beds I saw, far back in John Robertson's eyes, the eternal West African question: What is this guy going on about?

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About Denis Johnson

Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He is perhaps best known for his debut short story collection, Jesus' Son (1992). His most successful novel, Tree of Smoke (2007), won the National Book Award for Fiction. Johnson was twice shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Altogether, Johnson was the author of nine novels, one novella, two books of short stories, three collections of poetry, two collections of plays, and one book of reportage. His final work, a book of short stories titled The Largesse of the Sea Maiden, was published posthumously in 2018.