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Dickens would have given him funny whiskers, astigmatism, a shortened leg, a purple nose, and still to make sure we wouldn't mistake him a catch phrase for his utterance. "Any novelist who has mastered the rudiments of his craft, even though he hasn't an atom of humor in his make-up, can write a Dickens novel, and any publisher will print it for the Christmas trade if it's fairly workman-like, and it will be warmly praised in the reviews. That happens every season. "And that's why Dickens is a ...bad model. If one must have a model, why not Hall Caine, in- 112 SOME HARMFUL INFLUENCES finitely the superior of Dickens as a craftsman? Of course, having no humor, he can't be read by people who have, but he knows his trade, where Dickens was a preposterous blunderer." Charles Belmont Davis once told me that a novelist should have some other regular occupa- tion besides writing. I asked Mr. Wilson his opinion on this subject. "Mr. Davis didn't originate this theory," he said. "It's older than he is.
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