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Literary characters are physically vague—they have only a few features, and these features don’t matter. Or, these features only matter in that they help narrow a character’s meaning. But these features don’t help us picture a character. Characters are ciphers. And narratives are made richer by omission.
Picturing Books – beautiful essay by Peter Mendelsund exploring the layer of imagination we each bring to stories.
6-29-2012
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