“Fact is a poor storyteller. It starts a story at
haphazard, generally long before the beginning, rambles on inconsequently and
tails off, leaving loose ends hanging about, without a conclusion. It works up
to an interesting situation, and then leaves it in the air to follow an issue
that has nothing to do with the point; it has no sense of climax and whittles
away its dramatic effects in irrelevance.”—British man of letters W. Somerset
Maugham (1874-1965), Ashenden, or The British Agent
(1928)
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