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“The meaning of fiction,” Flannery O’Connor contends, “is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning” (see her essay, “Writing Short Stories”)
As I explain in my book, BEAUTY & IMITATION, “our experience of the kind of showing that is a short story does not give us conceptual knowledge but a kind of “lived” know-how. The short story, in…