And really, if one didn't care for tradition and had no aesthetic sensibility, stock-car racing would have much to recommend it. It's possible to see how Nick prefers it to horse racing. There's something nice about people cheering, as they were tonight, for their friends and townsmen rather than for their own hope of gain (there's no betting at auto races).
A. Lurie, Real People (1969), Collected edition (1999), 440
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Saturday, 27 January 2018
Thursday, 30 November 2017
Nowadays most long novels are bad
Besides, nowadays most long novels are bad. It was different a hundred or two hundred years ago. Today life moves faster, its parts are less connected; one assumes of most interesting events and relations (however intense) that they will be of no greater length or complication than can be described in twenty or thirty pages.
A. Lurie, Real People (1969), Collected edition (1999), 375
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