Opened a random Le Guin essay and got this gem: "It's a writer's business to develop an infallible sense for the proper size and length of a work; the beauty of the novella and novel is essentially architectural, the beauty of proportion."
just finished the iliad for the first time & can say decisively that the funniest moment in all 24 books is when a horse who has previously never spoken speaks just long enough to prophesy Achilles’ death & Achilles, very understandably, is like “shut the fuck up. you’re a horse”