"When a place is central to a good writer's imagination, it is because that place has become a metaphor for larger concerns."
— Places

January 1, 1970

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John Barth, introductory note (1984) to "The Spirit of Place" (1975), in The Friday Book (1984). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, p. 127.