It is presented by the author in full exegetical mode
My own taste tends towards the sketchier fictional personage, whose lacunae and omissions tease us, provoke us to wade in their deep shallows
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.
he wants to discipline this welter of detail
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
