Read the passage from "How Should One Read a Book?”The thirty-two chapters of a novel—if we consider how to read a novel first—are an attempt to make something as formed and controlled as a building: but words are more impalpable than bricks; reading is a longer and more complicated process than seeing.

The passage explains how a novel is constructed and why reading it differs from simply looking at a building. It gives information through the comparison between words and bricks, rather than criticizing something, entertaining with a story, or urging the reader to take a particular action. The best answer is “inform.”

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