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GRE经典背诵文选之一Thomas Hardys impulses as a writer, all of which he indulged in his novels, were numerous and divergent, and they did not always work together in harmony. Hardy was to some degree (5)interested in exploring his characters psycholo-gies, though impelled less by curiosity than bysympathy. Occasionally he felt the impulse to comedy (in all its detached coldness) as well asthe impulse to farce, but he was more often  (10) inclined to see tragedy and record it. He was also inclined to literary realism in the severalsenses of that phrase. He wanted to describe ordinary human beings; he wanted to speculateon their dilemmas rationally (and, unfortu-  (15) nately, even schematically); and he wanted to record precisely the material universe. Finally, he wanted to be more than a realist. He wanted to transcend what he considered to be the banality of solely recording things exactly and  (20) to express as well his awareness of the occultand the strange . In his novels these various impulses were sacrificed to each other inevitably and often. inevitably, because Hardy did not care in the (25) way that novelists such as Flaubert or Jamescared, and therefore took path of least resistance. Thus, one impulse often surrenderedto a fresher one and, unfortunately, instead of exacting a compromise, simply disappeared.  (30) A desire to throw over reality a light that neverwas might give way abruptly to the desire on the part of what we might consider a novelist-scientist to record exactly and concretely thestructure and texture of a flower . In this  (35) instance, the new impulses was at least anenergetic one, and thus its indulgence did notresult in a relaxed style. But on other occasionsHardy abandoned a perilous, risky, and highly energizing impulse in favor of what was for him  (40) the fatally relaxing impulse to classify andschematize abstractly. When a relaxing impulsewas indulged, the style - that sure index of anauthors literary worth - wa