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| == Lightness == | ==== Lightness ==== |
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| <blockquote>…my working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure ofstories and from language. </blockquote> | <blockquote>…my working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure ofstories and from language. </blockquote> |
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| == Quickness == | ==== Quickness ==== |
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| <blockquote>“Quickness of style and thought means above all agility, mobility, and ease, all qualities that go with writing where it is natural to digress, to jump from one subject to another, to lose the thread a hundred times and find it again after a hundred more twists and turns.”</blockquote> | <blockquote>“Quickness of style and thought means above all agility, mobility, and ease, all qualities that go with writing where it is natural to digress, to jump from one subject to another, to lose the thread a hundred times and find it again after a hundred more twists and turns.”</blockquote> |
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| == Exactitude == | ==== Exactitude ==== |
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| <blockquote> To my mind exactitude means three things above all: | <blockquote> To my mind exactitude means three things above all: |
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| == Visibility == | ==== Visibility ==== |
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| <blockquote>“If I have included visibility in my list of values to be saved, it is to give warning of the danger we run in losing a basic human faculty: the power of bringing visions into focus with our eyes shut, of bringing forth forms and colours from the lines of black letters on a white page, and in fact of thinking in terms of images.”</blockquote> | <blockquote>“If I have included visibility in my list of values to be saved, it is to give warning of the danger we run in losing a basic human faculty: the power of bringing visions into focus with our eyes shut, of bringing forth forms and colours from the lines of black letters on a white page, and in fact of thinking in terms of images.”</blockquote> |
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| == Multiplicity == | ==== Multiplicity ==== |
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| <blockquote> “Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement…the grand challenge for literature is to be capable of weaving together the various branches of knowledge, the various “codes” into a manifold and multifaceted vision of the world.”</blockquote> | <blockquote> “Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement…the grand challenge for literature is to be capable of weaving together the various branches of knowledge, the various “codes” into a manifold and multifaceted vision of the world.”</blockquote> |
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| == Consistency == | ==== Consistency ==== |
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| Finally - consistency… never finished | Finally - consistency… never finished |
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