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innashpitzberg

27 октября 2012 г., 16:00

On a large lined pad that I took from my briefcase, a bulging Bildungsroman briefcase - ten pounds of books, five obscure magazines, and easily enough paper to write the whole of my first novel if it should happen to come to me while riding back and forth on the bus - I began methodically to list everything on his bookshelves I had not read. There was more German philosophy than I had been expecting, and only halfway down the page I already seemed to have sentenced myself to a lifetime at hard labor.