# [1921 criticism] Lubbock's general claims in XIV-XVI are few and mostly stated in passing: break a sound rule at the right point (and not before); a prudent writer relieves the climax; writing is forestalling and anticipating; preparation must not show; the same method has different effects on...

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[1921 criticism] Lubbock's general claims in XIV-XVI are few and mostly stated in passing: break a sound rule at the right point (and not before); a prudent writer relieves the climax; writing is forestalling and anticipating; preparation must not show; the same method has different effects on different subjects; method should arise from the subject (said of Anna Karenina); and incidental recurring characters must serve the foreground story. Everything else is a reading of Balzac, Dickens, Stevenson or Tolstoy. He does not use 'pacing' in these chapters, uses 'method' 26 times for how a story is presented (picture, scene, point of view), and never defines method as the shape of the whole book; the sentence that does connect method to point of view opens Ch. XVII (L5770), outside the assigned range.

[1921 criticism] Lubbock's general claims in XIV-XVI are few and mostly stated in passing: break a sound rule at the right point (and not before); a prudent writer relieves the climax; writing is forestalling and anticipating; preparation must not show; the same method has different effects on different subjects; method should arise from the subject (said of Anna Karenina); and incidental recurring characters must serve the foreground story. Everything else is a reading of Balzac, Dickens, Stevenson or Tolstoy. He does not use 'pacing' in these chapters, uses 'method' 26 times for how a story is presented (picture, scene, point of view), and never defines method as the shape of the whole book; the sentence that does connect method to point of view opens Ch. XVII (L5770), outside the assigned range.

Curator qualifications: General vs specific split; no general pacing rule. READOUT says 83 excerpts were re-checked; candidates.json carries 89 excerpted rows (all located). Counting note only.

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- [inference] [1921 criticism] Lubbock's general claims in XIV-XVI are few and mostly stated in passing: break a sound rule at the right point (and not before); a prudent writer relieves the climax; writing is forestalling and anticipating; preparation must not show; the same method has different effects on different subjects; method should arise from the subject (said of Anna Karenina); and incidental recurring characters must serve the foreground story. Everything else is a reading of Balzac, Dickens, Stevenson or Tolstoy. He does not use 'pacing' in these chapters, uses 'method' 26 times for how a story is presented (picture, scene, point of view), and never defines method as the shape of the whole book; the sentence that does connect method to point of view opens Ch. XVII (L5770), outside the assigned range. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18961/pg18961.txt

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