A chapter from the novel that decided Patrick White’s Nobel Prize was submitted to a range of publishers and agents in Australia, and rejected by each. The reaction to the fallout from Peter Craven is spot on. See here.
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Had he read Democritus, he might have discovered, in philosophy's first collection of ethical precepts, among portents of atheism, and the vision of his own soul composed of round, smooth, especially mobile atoms, that it is the unexpected which occurs.
—William Gaddis, The Recognitions