A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations. (Umberto Eco)

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

Umberto Eco

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