Work is central to literature

[malignd at aol.com]

<<Maybe the notion that work gets less-than-proportionate attention in 
fiction is a perceptual illusion. Fiction is highly selective about 
*everything* in life, holding our interest by stitching together 
moments of heightened change, perception, resolution -- and building 
with them meaning-structures of a clarity we very rarely attain in 
looking at our own lives. Density such as that of Ulysses -- where it's 
possible to believe you're partaking of *everything* in Bloom's 
consciousness that day -- is rare. >>

When William Shawn was editor of the New Yorker he would write in the 
margins of fiction he was editing such things as "These people are six 
hours into their day and nobody's had a meal."





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