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pressures which engender feelings. They reveal a deep-but not deliberate
-awareness of what people do to one another. As a consequence, they
provide us with that sense of the intimacy of all s,ocial contact, that
sense of the density of social circumstances which convinces us that
even as readers we are living in the world. Lacking that sense, fiction
is
faithful to nothing but illusion;
to
succeed, it must be faithful to
the end.
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