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Page 86
... novelist is ill - advised to be too technical . The practice , which came into fashion in the nineties , of using a multitude of cant terms is tire- some . It should be possible to give verisimilitude without that , and atmosphere is ...
... novelist is ill - advised to be too technical . The practice , which came into fashion in the nineties , of using a multitude of cant terms is tire- some . It should be possible to give verisimilitude without that , and atmosphere is ...
Page 193
... novelist who takes up the attitude of an all- seeing and all - wise narrator . What this observer did not know could be left conveniently mysterious . It was , however , only a slight variation from the autobiographical form that has ...
... novelist who takes up the attitude of an all- seeing and all - wise narrator . What this observer did not know could be left conveniently mysterious . It was , however , only a slight variation from the autobiographical form that has ...
Page 196
... novelist claims to be an artist and the artist does not copy life , he makes an arrangement out of it to suit his own purposes . Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story ; his view of life ...
... novelist claims to be an artist and the artist does not copy life , he makes an arrangement out of it to suit his own purposes . Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story ; his view of life ...
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