Trivialities & Flabbiness

accurate in surface detail, technicallynskillful and interesting, but divorcednfrom any center of values and devoid ofnany synthesizing interpretive or evaluativenvision. Wisdom, of course, does notnlie on the periphery. Indeed, neitherndoes accurate description that penetratesnto any significant degree belownthe surface of human experience.nAnyone who reads much contemporarynfiction knows that Seattle . . .