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If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller

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So, then, you noticed in a newspaper that If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller had appeared, the new book by Italo Calvino, who hadn’t published for several years. You went to the bookshop and bought the volume. Good for …
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06. January 2012 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Italo Calvino written in 1979

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The History of Mr Polly

The essential thing of those fifteen long years of shopkeeping is Mr Polly, well athwart the counter of his rather ill-lit shop, lost in a book, or rousing himself with a sigh to attend to business. And meanwhile he got …
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08. February 2010 by The Geecologist
Quoted from H.G.Wells written in 1910

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Auto Da Fé

As he was passing by the cathedral, warm, uncanny sounds reached his ears. He would have sung in the same key, had his voice, like his mood, been at his command. Suddenly a spot of dirt fell on him. Curious …
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05. August 2009 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Elias Canetti written in 1935

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Auto Da Fé

‘How old are you?’ ‘Nine and a bit.’ ‘Which would you prefer, a piece of chocolate or a book?’ ‘A book.’ ‘Indeed? Splendid! So that’s your reason for standing here?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Why didn’t you say so before?’ ‘Father scolds me.’ …
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11. July 2009 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Elias Canetti written in 1935

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The Human Factor

He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path that keeps the indent of footsteps. He had read from this one to Sam several times during the last two years, but …
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10. November 2008 by The Geecologist
Quoted from Graham Greene written in 1978

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