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Something Rotten: on reading
Posted by: G. M. Curtis (---.cstltn01.in.comcast.net)
Date: February 16, 2005 02:55AM

Given Thursday Next's inspired defense of the distinctiveness of each reading, is not the following apropos?

from Wallace Stevens:


The reader became the book; and the summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book.


This is the epigraph for Harold Blum's How to Read and Why.



GMC


Re: Something Rotten: on reading
Posted by: splat21 (---.range81-154.btcentralplus.com)
Date: February 19, 2005 12:11AM

Lovely. Thanks for that.



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