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According to Mr. Dobie, "Laughter" was a work of the imagination in every detail. It had nowhere a starting point from reality, though -- as he says -- he now and then draws a character from life, such as that of Josef in "Four Saturdays," and he occasionally shapes an incident to the needs of the story, as he did in "The Failure. " In "The Failure" and other stories, however, as in "Where the Road Forked," (_Harper's_, June, 1917), he states that the incident was really a mere pivot or peg on which he hung a cloak of almost pure imagination.
In regard to his maintaining his angle of narration so perfectly, he says this phase of his craft is rather instinctive. "Even before I became conscious of the force of a single point of view I somehow managed to achieve it without thinking about it at all."