''I though if I got lucky I'd get close to the British record but I blew up in the end.

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When the controversy blew up, and I was sort of written off by the publishing business, and by the literary community, instead of being upset about it, I was kind of excited.

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The night I arrived, we dined with four delightful expat friends at a nice hotel restaurant, where I learned, among other things, that in 1992 a construction crew working for Ross Perot illegally blew up a coral reef so that he could moor his yacht, the Chateau Margaux, at his doorstep.

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