Let’s imagine we’re Mister Lester… Why! I feel so tall all of a sudden! Back to reality here. The Mister does stand about a head taller than me, but I’ve never seen him in eyeliner. I’m not saying it’s bad—I remember a performance by Keanu Reeves as Siddhartha in “Little…
Tag: on writing
E. M. Forster, in his 1927 book “Aspects of the Novel,” presented the concept of “round” versus “flat” characters. He generally preferred the former to the latter except when the purpose was to arouse feelings of “humour” or “appropriateness,” maintaining that flat characters, comprised of a single idea or “factor,”…