Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.
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Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.
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Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.
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