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A few paragraphs after the statements just quoted, Mattison is discussing a Charles Baxter essay in which Baxter glances at the sort [of stories] that were rejected as old-fashioned by the authors who first made stories turn on insight.

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The inventor of the cyclotron, Ernest Orlando Lawrence (left), and his student Edwin Mattison McMillan, one of the two inventors of the principle of phase stability show the accelerating point at the entrance to a screened semi-circular electrode structure.

Accelerators and Nobel Laureates 2001

Edwin Mattison McMillan received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Glenn Theodore Seaborg for the discovery of the element neptunium.

Accelerators and Nobel Laureates 2001

Edwin Mattison McMillan was born on 18th September, 1907, at Redondo Beach, California.

Edwin M. McMillan - Biography 1964

The work of attempting to understand some of the ways in which weavers might have constituted, or continue to constitute anew, their own identities has been left to anthropologists such as Mattison Mines and his work, The Warrior Merchants.

Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India 2001

While neighborhood groups such as Mattison's attempt to "work within the system and the BRA process, trying to get the best community benefits," Carman said, his group "is more interested in taking the struggle outside the confines of the BRA's process."

The Harvard Crimson :: News 2009

Mattison comments: It hadn't occured to me, before I read Baxter's sentence, that coincidence defines the type of story in which it appears.

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In the May/Summer issue of The Writer's Chronicle, Alice Mattison offers an interesting essay (not available online, but the issue's table of contents is available here) defending the use of coincidence in fiction.

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Subtitled "An Essay Against Craft," the essay commends the use of coincidence as a way of taking risk, which Mattison feels is discouraged in a literary world dominated by the workshop "rules" implicitly taught in creative writing programs.

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Mattison identifies James and Joyce as the writers who came to "shape" their stories around the occurence of an "epiphany," but it was really Flaubert who showed James and Joyce that such an aesthetically intricate effect could be brought off in fiction.

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