In a message dated 9/13/12 1:22:08 PM, [email protected] writes:
> - Not only does one not retain all at once the truly rare works, but even > within such works it is the least precious parts that one perceives first. > Less deceptive than life, these great masterpieces do not give us their > best at the beginning. > > Marcel *Proust* > > One of the many distinctions bertween literary and visual art is that a novel is a "temporal" work. Usually the early part is lumbered with the necessity to supply set-up exposition. As a general rule, stage plays' second acts are more seizing than their first acts.
