On the authority behind the Chums?; from Democracy in America, Chap 5

[Monte Davis]

> First off, let's remember where we are, vis. the Chums-in a sort of 
> "body without organs", in the midst of a fiction, notably a 
> particular 
> genre of fiction that includes a set of fictions, where 
> narrator, tone of voice, degree of seriousness to be granted 
> to a given situation, 
> all these literary considerations are writhing like worms in 
> a compost box, all these threads, characters, story lines 
> sinuously moving 
> along.

What you said.

And very well, too.