Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Session 28
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 1
“Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens.”
Introduction to the story “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” p. 166
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
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