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"...we no longer look up at a vainglorious god, or even at a vengeful one. What we glimpse is more curious, if not less paradoxical: a supreme being who, though solitary, though single, has made 'perfect happiness' depend on entering the condition of the couple, and is now regarding this paradise from outside its gates."

"Austen Style similarly presupposes and enforces , its author's own 'under-representability,' a condition I can describe most simply for the moment by observing that the realism of her works allows no one like Jane Austen to appear in them."

I'm rapt.