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Mary Burns's avatar

Form before content puts it succinctly. Maybe, in this space, you will reprint Novels and Dreams, which I printed out ages ago (it seems). I underlined this sentence. " To have read enough to feel the oceanic movement of events and ideas in history; to have experienced enough to escape the confines of a personal provincialism; to have distanced yourself enough from your hang-ups and pettiness to create words reflecting the emotional complexity of minds beyond your own......" We try.

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Gerard Beirne's avatar

Much appreciated, Doug. So clearly expressed and so helpful. Your writing on writing is the finest out there.

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