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‘“Man”, said A.R Entwhistle, “must not be satisfied with observation, analysis and inference – he must become* for the time being what he wants to understand. Goethe put the poet’s situation very pithily when he said: “My work is that of a composite being, which happens to be signed.”’**

*[Through the sustained sub-creation of long fiction, in the present writer’s case.]

**Ibid, 30-31

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