If we are to become, as readers, more than mere consumers, it becomes evident that the notion of some sort of detailed exploration whether explicit or not permeates any great work of literature. One of literature's greatest functions, I would think, is to explore and to prompt the reader to do likewise, though different writers have different ways of achieving this.
Thus we have characters like Aragorn.
And then we have characters like Humbert Humbert.
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~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~
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