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What I find absorbing and rewarding as a reader is the perturbation of a status quo that a crisis, such as a crime, creates.
Indeed, at most times, the said youngster might have discharged a whole quiver of arrows into the Captain's eyes without his being aware of the attack; but, at the present time, the Captain, as the reader is aware, was up to the eyes in a plot in which Cupid's aid was necessary; he had, as it were, invoked the fat child's presence.— Rivers of Ice
The result for the reader is a twofold interest, half in seeing what will be to most an unfamiliar place under expert guidance, half in the briskly moving intrigue supposed to be going on there.— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29
Throughout his eventful life, as the reader has been able clearly to see, Kit Carson seldom spent his time in idle thinking.— The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself

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