"When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness."

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But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.

— E. M. Forster