The Parable of the Tapeworm

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Across
  1. 4. Poet prodigy mentioned as exception
  2. 6. What a writer willingly accepts, per Vargas Llosa
  3. 8. What writers invent to replace real life
  4. 9. Bistro location in Paris
  5. 12. The inevitable starting point
  6. 15. Advice on not counting on success
  7. 18. Early sign of vocation
  8. 21. Those who spun myths around the writer as chosen one
  9. 22. Friend who swallowed a tapeworm in Paris
  10. 23. What writing allows one to give, without wasting life
  11. 27. Flaubert’s philosophy of the writer’s life
  12. 29. Flaubert’s lover and correspondent
  13. 30. Author of Junky
  14. 31. Burroughs book used as analogy for addiction to writing
  15. 32. Musical prodigy mentioned
  16. 33. Faulkner, Hemingway, Malraux, etc.
  17. 34. Root of literary vocation
  18. 35. Governments that try to control literature
  19. 36. What dictatorships impose on literature
Down
  1. 1. Metaphor for the literary vocation (and a hint to this puzzle’s theme)
  2. 2. The secret raison d’être of literature
  3. 3. Existentialist who believed vocation was a choice
  4. 5. How Vargas Llosa describes the literary vocation
  5. 7. Author who said “writing is just another way of living”
  6. 10. Flaubert’s other modern novel
  7. 11. Flaubert’s first masterpiece
  8. 13. Institution that banned fiction in colonies
  9. 14. What can produce genius alongside discipline
  10. 16. Sartre’s circle
  11. 17. Mysterious thing that appears after discipline
  12. 19. Thomas ___ , who described the writer’s worm
  13. 20. Dictator of Lima in Vargas Llosa’s youth
  14. 24. One of the writers in Vargas Llosa’s pantheon
  15. 25. Character who confused fiction with reality
  16. 26. Fascist, communist, etc.
  17. 28. Realm where fictional realities begin
  18. 36. Creator of Don Quixote