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You know, Thackeray says at one point that the novelist knows everything. He is like God, and this may be why he could write in the third person.
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God can write in the third person only so long as He understands His world. But if the world becomes contradictory or incomprehensible to Him, then God begins to grow concerned with His own nature. It’s either that, or borrow notions from other Gods.
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| John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, E. M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Christopher Isherwood, James Jones, Alfred Kazin, Katherine Anne Porter, John Steinbeck, Robert Penn Warren, Thomas Wolfe, Jeffrey Farnol, James Thomas Farrell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Martin Heidegger, Jean Malaquais, Karl Marx, Rafael Sabatini, Jean-Paul Sartre, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain |
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