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“Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found
Ulysses
indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken.
Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.”
― The Last Novel
Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.”
― The Last Novel
“You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.”
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“Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times.”
― Reader’s Block
― Reader’s Block
“...Troy itself was disappointingly small. Like little more than your ordinary city block and a few stories in height, practically.
Although now that I remember, everything in William Shakespeare's house at Stratford-on-Avon was astonishingly tiny, too. As if only imaginary people had lived there then.
Or perhaps it is only the past itself, which is always smaller than one had believed.”
― Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Although now that I remember, everything in William Shakespeare's house at Stratford-on-Avon was astonishingly tiny, too. As if only imaginary people had lived there then.
Or perhaps it is only the past itself, which is always smaller than one had believed.”
― Wittgenstein’s Mistress
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