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The Novel As A Form Is Usually Seen To Be Moral If Its Readers Consider Freedom, Individuality, Democracy, Privacy, Social Connection, Tolerance And Hope To Be Morally Good, But It Is Not Considered Moral If The Highest Values Of A Society Are Adherence To Rules And Traditional Mores, The Maintenance Of Hierarchical Relationships, And Absolute Ideas Of Right And Wrong. Any Society Based On The Latter Will Find Novels Inherently Immoral And Subversive.

I Wrote The Dickens Book Because I Loved Dickens, Not Because I Felt A Kinship With Him, But After Writing The Book It Seemed To Me That There Was At Least One Similarity Between Us And That Was That Dickens Loved To Write And Wrote With The Ease And Conviction Of Breathing. Me, Too.

In The Traditional Urban Novel, There Is Only Survival Or Not. The Suburban Idea, The Conformist Idea, That Agony Can Be Seen To And Cured By Doctors Or Psychoanalysis Or Self-knowledge Is Nowhere To Be Found In The City. Talking Is A Way Of Life, But It Is Not A Cure. Same With Religion.

The Main Thing About The Novel That Is Totally Fascinating: It's Not Possessed By The Writer; It's Possessed By The Reader.

Vets Do What Doctors Used To - Diagnose The Injury Or The Condition, Patch It Up As Best They Can And Remind You That These Things Happen And That In Life We Are Also In The Midst Of Death.