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Okay, what’s fictional nonfiction, then?” I asked.
“Same idea. Not all the fictional books are fiction,” explained Dr. Rust. “Some are nonfiction.”
“Huh?” Now I was thoroughly confused.
“Oh, for example . . .” Dr. Rust hesitated.
Elizabeth suggested, “The Key to All Mythologies?”
“Yes! Good one. That’s in Middlemarch, a novel by George Eliot. A fussy scholar spends his life writing it—The Key to All Mythologies, I mean. It’s nonfiction, but it exists in the novel, which is fiction. So it’s
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― The Poe Estate
― The Poe Estate
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Le coeur se sature d'amour comme d'un sel divin qui le conserve; de la l'incorruptible adherence de ceux qui se sont aimes des l'aube de la vie, et la fraicheur des vielles amours prolonges. Il existe un embaumement d'amour. C'est de Daphnis et Chloe que sont faits Philemon et Baucis. Cette vieillesse la, ressemblance du soir avec l'aurore.
The heart is saturated with love as if with a divine salt which preserves it; that is what makes possible the incorruptible attachment of those who have lov
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― The Man Who Laughs
― The Man Who Laughs
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