The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. (Herman Melville)

The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact.

Herman Melville

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