I often quote Sam Johnson on CLARISSA when explaining long TTRPG Actual Play: “if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, & consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.”
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Stephanie Insley Hershinow
BUT, you might ask, why do “parents shouldn’t over-control their kids’ marriages” and “don’t marry an asshole” take nine volumes and 1800+ pages? Well, because R is *at least* as interested in this whole aesthetic project of intense immersion and immediacy, how to plunge a reader into a story.
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