![...a [literary] style can be a whole way of existing, so that you exist, for the moment, in perfect sympathy with it: you don't read it so much as listen to it as it sweeps you along-fast enough, often, to make you feel a blurred pleasure in your own speed. Often a phrase or sentence has the uncaring unconscious authority-how else could you say it?-that only a real style has. (Randall Jarrell)](https://cdn.quotesdtb.com/img/quotes_images_webp/37/randall-jarrell-blur-enough-455637.webp)
...a [literary] style can be a whole way of existing, so that you exist, for the moment, in perfect sympathy with it: you don't read it so much as listen to it as it sweeps you along-fast enough, often, to make you feel a blurred pleasure in your own speed. Often a phrase or sentence has the uncaring unconscious authority-how else could you say it?-that only a real style has.
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