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"The usefulness may, in one case, consist in a moral; in another, in some practical advice; in a third, in a proverb or maxim. In every case the storyteller is a man who has councel for his readers. But if today “having councel” is beginning to have an old-fashioned ring, this is because the communicability of experience is decreasing. In consequence we have no council either for ourselves or for others. After all, councel is less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story which is just unfolding."

"To write a novel means to carry the incommensurable to extremes in the representation of human life. In the midst of life’s fullness, and throughRead more... )

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