p79
...to pretend, to live as if life might yet lead all the way to unexpected deliverance, is the best way to keep from dying in midfable ...the promise of fiction, the pleasure, our one moral obligation ...the shape of the storied curve--the beginning, development, complication, end. It is the point of being, the thing bones were built for, broken by, the land all leaps aim at, the link, the hovering conclusion, her whole-body therapy, the reading cure.
