George Saunders Quote
I hold the biscuits in front of his face and he stands up.What do I have to do? he says.Nothing, I say. They're for you.Are they poisoned? he says.No, I say.Eat one, he says.So I do.Probably the others are poisoned, he says. Eat a fraction of each.I eat a corner off each biscuit. He looks at the reminders suspiciously, then sniffs them.I'm not sure it's worth it, he says. How I wish you'd never come. Perhaps you've left the poison off of just those corners.I begin to realize I'll doubt whatever information he gives me.Lick the entire biscuit, he says. Then give them to me.So I lick each biscuit.Both sides, he says.I lick both sides of each biscuit. I give him the wet biscuits and he cracks them open and sniffs them. Then he puts them in his pocket. What do you want? he says. Now that you've failed to poison me to death.
I hold the biscuits in front of his face and he stands up.What do I have to do? he says.Nothing, I say. They're for you.Are they poisoned? he says.No, I say.Eat one, he says.So I do.Probably the others are poisoned, he says. Eat a fraction of each.I eat a corner off each biscuit. He looks at the reminders suspiciously, then sniffs them.I'm not sure it's worth it, he says. How I wish you'd never come. Perhaps you've left the poison off of just those corners.I begin to realize I'll doubt whatever information he gives me.Lick the entire biscuit, he says. Then give them to me.So I lick each biscuit.Both sides, he says.I lick both sides of each biscuit. I give him the wet biscuits and he cracks them open and sniffs them. Then he puts them in his pocket. What do you want? he says. Now that you've failed to poison me to death.
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About George Saunders
A professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1997. His first story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, was a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award. In 2006, Saunders received a MacArthur Fellowship and won the World Fantasy Award for his short story "CommComm".
His story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2007. In 2013, he won the PEN/Malamud Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Saunders's Tenth of December: Stories won the 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize. His novel Lincoln in the Bardo won the 2017 Booker Prize.