“A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.”

Meaning

This reads as a defense of the short story as a tightly built form, one that can be grasped as a whole. It suggests that its power lies in design, where every part matters and the reader can study how the pieces fit together, much like examining a mechanism that has been made to work with precision.

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Originally said in English.

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