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Extra Lives by Tom Bissell
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The Other Nineteenth Century
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Romans de la Table Ronde by Chrétien de Troyes
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The Romances of Chretien de Troyes by Joseph J. Duggan
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The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
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The Other Nineteenth Century by Avram Davidson
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
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Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
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David Foster Wallace
“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Jorge Luis Borges
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
Jorge Luis Borges

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