Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively…

V. S. Naipaul
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. ✨ V. S. Naipaul (2012). Literary Occasions: Essays, p.190, Pan Macmillan
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. ✨ V. S. Naipaul (2012). Literary Occasions: Essays, p.190, Pan Macmillan

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