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Jun. 24th, 2003 07:34 pm
truepenny: artist's rendering of Sidneyia inexpectans (writerfox)
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The critic Frank Kermode once defined the novel as consisting of two components: scandal and myth.
          --Victor Turner
            From Ritual to Theatre, p. 68.

Sadly, Turner doesn't say where Kermode turned that tidy epigram.
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