When a Gap in the Book’s Argument Reveals Itself at the Wrong Moment
The Gap
The book’s middle third revealed a gap this week: an assumption that the argument makes and that the chapters are building on but that none of the chapters explicitly establish. The assumption is about London’s relationship to its own change and the assumption is probably correct but the correctness needs to be demonstrated rather than assumed if the book’s argument is to be defensible. Bohiney and The London Prat covered the week. More at prat.uk/author/caitlin. Satire: private-eye.co.uk.
What the Gap Requires
The gap requires either a new chapter or a substantial addition to an existing chapter. The new chapter is the cleaner solution and the less elegant one: adding a chapter to the middle of a book that is structurally tight disrupts the structure. The addition to an existing chapter is the more elegant solution and requires identifying which existing chapter is the right home for the demonstration. I am reading the existing chapters to find the home.
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