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Lubbock does not ban telling: he says the novelist 'must state, must tell, must narrate', that summary is constantly needed, and that picture (telling through a mind) has its own strength.","status":"active","body":{"text":"1921 criticism. In the body of the Gutenberg text (L56-L6444), searched after stripping carriage returns, underscores and line breaks, the phrase 'show, don't tell' and every imperative or 'show ... not ... tell' pattern tested occur 0 times. The nearest statements are descriptive: the art of fiction 'does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown' so that it 'will tell itself' (Ch. V); the author 'does not tell the story of Strether's mind; he makes it tell itself' (Ch. X); Maupassant is 'telling' but the telling goes unnoticed (Ch. VIII). Lubbock does not ban telling: he says the novelist 'must state, must tell, must narrate', that summary is constantly needed, and that picture (telling through a mind) has its own strength.\n\nCurator qualifications: Negative reproduced; Lubbock values showing but does not treat telling as a fault. The 'show, don't tell' slogan is not in the book.\n\nEvidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.","citations":[{"url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18961/pg18961.txt","note":"whole text (CR/underscores stripped)"}]},"categories":["T01"],"tags":[],"language":"en","visibility":"public","moderation":{"state":"visible","reason":null},"evidence":{"inspection":"source_inspected","execution":"not_run","review":"unreviewed","review_revision":null,"claims":[{"url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18961/pg18961.txt","claim":"1921 criticism. 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