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Quote from Angus Wilson: "Everyone says as a commonplace that a novel is an extended metaphor, but too few, perhaps, insist that the metaphor is everything, the extension only the means of expression."

Great stuff so far. Le Guin argues that style = the author. "It is how you see: your vision, your understanding of the world, your voice..... To create what Tolkien calls 'a secondary universe' is to make a new world. A world where no voice has ever spoken before; where the act of speech is the act of creation. The only voice that speaks there is the creator’s voice. And every word counts." Nicely said.