Goodreads asked Hal Hartley:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Hal Hartley Someone anonymously sent me the first two volumes of the three-volume Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil (in English). Heavily annotated, lots of marginalia, many paragraphs circled in pencil. I have never met anyone else in person who has read these books which are important to me. Except… I once had a one-night stand with a girl who pointed to the volumes on my shelves and asked: "Did you actually read these?" That was almost a decade earlier…

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