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the timbre, the expression of the voices that
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we have in these novels.
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Our writer for today thinks so highly of that capacity of
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literature to embody the human voice that he imagines a whole religious
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world around him.
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That's going to be the gist of my argument today.
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But then, there is a second, sort of, less mystical reason,
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and that's that these are the facts of a literary argument,
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these words that I give to you.
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It's like, if you're in an astronomy lecture, they're going to give you
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some facts about the composition of a planet, or its atmosphere,
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or whatever.