No fawning P-cultie, I

David Casseres casseres at apple.com
Thu Mar 6 16:28:26 CST 1997


Henry sez

>Perhaps GR is not a great novel because it isn't a novel. Are all long
>works of fiction novels? How important are the elements that we have
>all been taught are necessary or required in a novel? 

[and other interesting stuff]

E.M. Forster (if you'll cast your minds back) once said that a novel is a 
story of more than 50,000 words, or some number like that.  He had 
previously said that a story is two or more events arranged in a 
sequence.  He said things like that in order to get out of irritating 
discussions, no doubt, but I always thought those were actually pretty 
good definitions.


Cheers,
David




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