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lacuna
How Fiction Works

My own taste tends towards the sketchier fictional personage, whose lacunae and omissions tease us, provoke us to wade in their deep shallows

—p.84 Character (75) by James Wood
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dialectic

This tutoring is dialectical. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turns makes us better readers of life.

—p.53 Detail (48) by James Wood
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Flaubert and the Rise of the Flâneur by James Wood

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welter

he wants to discipline this welter of detail

—p.42 Flaubert and the Rise of the Flâneur (39) by James Wood
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troika

the third horse of this troika

might be the first time I've seen this used to refer to something other than the IMF et al, lol

—p.29 Narrating (5) by James Wood
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