Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of Heraclitus disappear and are replaced by estuaries of silt. The wife of Candaules becomes the wife of Gyges. Libraries burn.
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Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
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You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.
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You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.
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