I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

Summary

This quote reflects the speaker's admiration for Faulkner's ability to write about aircraft effectively in his book, Pylon. However, the speaker acknowledges their own limitation in writing about the same subject matter, believing that one cannot simply replicate someone else's accomplishment. The quote suggests that while the speaker may have had the potential to write about aircraft in their own unique way, Faulkner's work has preceded them, preventing them from pursuing the same path.

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