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A safe preserve for sport. (Fiction chronicle).

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| May 01, 2003 | Watman, Max | COPYRIGHT 2003 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It was something, I guessed, in the primal plan, something like a complex figure in a Persian carpet.

--Henry James, "The Figure in the Carpet"

The search for an enigma catalyzes the revelations of character in "The Figure in the Carpet." Too often, writers learn not from James but from his character Vereker. They learn not the use of a macguffin to expose character flaws but, rather, that fiction might have a pattern. Likewise, revelation and discovery are key to the novel. The forced manifestation of an imposed pattern is merely boring and academic. Patterns can be put to work, however. Suki Kim's pattern of Korean immigrants--her delivery truck ...

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