You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of __haracter_ or that kind of __haracter,_ and readers pretend to talk knowingly about __haracter,_ but all it amounts to is that the writers are enjoying themselves writing lies and the readers are enjoying themselves reading lies. In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don__ know how to write about. Or, if they tried, the end result would never be a novel. Real people are strangely difficult to make sense out of. Even a god would have his hands full trying.
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Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of __haracter_ or that kind of __haracter,_ and readers pretend to talk knowingly about __haracter,_ but all it amounts to is that the writers are enjoying themselves writing lies and the readers are enjoying themselves reading lies. In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don__ know how to write about. Or, if they tried, the end result would never be a novel. Real people are strangely difficult to make sense out of. Even a god would have his hands full trying.
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