Recognizing The Recognitions or Everything Connects

[Mark Kohut]

Don't know if I live right but sometimes I read the right things.

Raymond Williams was an English cultural/literary critic 
of the generation before the current one (or two)---around
Tony Tanner's time. 

So I get a copy of his 1970 book, The English Novel from
Dickens to Lawrence. 

in the first chapter he writes that "most novels are in some sense
knowable communities"---true still to James Wood and many others.
"In its simplest form this amounts to saying---though at its most confident
it did not have to be said [love this]--that the knowable and therefore known
relationships compose and are part of a wholly known social structure and
that in and through the relationships the persons themselves can be wholly 
known."

To be continued...............................