Problem is, I'm still not sure what I mean about Richardson's people seeming like robots. But I'm glad that in Shamela, she fakes drowning herself in order to cover up the fact that she disappeared for a couple hours to fuck Parson Williams—by giving Shamela a surface story and an inner real story, Fielding makes her seem so REAL to me. (Richardson's Pamela doesn't get to do that—she always means exactly what she says, and she's so so so BORING.)
