I wrote, a few entries ago, that this lack of regionalism is true of “most of the fiction I have written,” but I was thinking mainly of my third book, The Three Sunrises, and of its middle section, a novella called The Book of Numbers, which is, I think, about as far from an example of ‘regionalism’ as one might get, and more a work of symbolism (if I had to describe it as a work of something), though what exactly it would symbolize I’d find difficult to say.