Re: shucks, i'm all emotional.

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Susan.E.Pearson-1 wrote:

> This reminds me of a course I took once (a seniou level college course,
> mind you) in which we were talking about To the Lighthouse and she said
> "But nothing happens." What can Virginia and I do but shake our heads?

Well maybe not "plotwise," depending on how vigorous you need your car chases, but
practically the entire breadth of the literature of the 20th century has been books
where "nothing happens" ever since Proust and Joyce and Woolf pioneered the work of the
"wilderness within."

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