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Dubbed wern alle þo downeȝ sydeȝ Wyth crystal klyffeȝ so cler of kynde. Holtewodeȝ bryȝt aboute hem bydeȝ Of bolleȝ as blwe as ble of Ynde; As bornyst syluer þe lef on slydeȝ, Þat þike con trylle on vch a tynde. Quen glem of glodeȝ agaynȝ hem glydeȝ, Wyth schymeryng schene ful schrylle þay schynde. (Pearl Poet)
You ask if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book - if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise, to have set loose in them the consciousness that's otherwise conditioned and hemmed in by all that isn't fiction. View quote
Philip Roth