Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely.
...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
We move between two darknesses.