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    ... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.
    —Gish Jen (b. 1956)

    Carlyle is not a seer, but a brave looker-on and reviewer; not the most free and catholic observer of men and events, for they are likely to find him preoccupied, but unexpectedly free and catholic when they fall within the focus of his lens.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)