ATDATD Prep

[Monte Davis]

> Here he strikes a nice balance between the reality of the text and  
> the imagination of the reader. Are there other sources that 
> are along  
> those lines? Ones that would be comprehensible to a laygeezer? Ones  
> that are entertaining as well as informative?

Try William Gass' _Fiction and the Figures of Life_, especially "The Concept
of Character in Fiction." I disagree with a lot of it, but it does a fine
job of clearing away cant.