Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & PassionThis is a book about books, about the pleasures, passions, and rewards of reading, about authors dedicated to writing and readers who delight in words in the right order. It contains a rich selection devoted to this seductive subject, from Calvino's meditation on selecting a title in a bookstore to Woolf's essays on the joys of "the common reader," from Schwartz's "Ruined by Reading" to Eco's "How to Organize a Public Library." The book is illuminated by sixteen full-color paintings by Bascove, who here serves as editor, illustrator, and primum mobile. Produced to the highest standards, it is not only a gift for the literary, but also an inducement to the diffident. |
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Page 39
... death . I am concentration itself : I exist in a universe where there is nothing but sex , death , and typewriting . After a spell of this I remove my penis too . Then I am all skull and bones typing into the afternoon . Just the ...
... death . I am concentration itself : I exist in a universe where there is nothing but sex , death , and typewriting . After a spell of this I remove my penis too . Then I am all skull and bones typing into the afternoon . Just the ...
Page 66
... And clearing the sill of the world . It is always a matter , my darling , Of life and death , as I had forgotten . I wish What I wished you before , but harder . FRAN LEBOWITZ Writing : A Life Sentence Contrary to what ༥ 66 ༤〉
... And clearing the sill of the world . It is always a matter , my darling , Of life and death , as I had forgotten . I wish What I wished you before , but harder . FRAN LEBOWITZ Writing : A Life Sentence Contrary to what ༥ 66 ༤〉
Page 88
... death of those innocents , but the priest would not agree without at least reading the titles first .... That night the housekeeper burned all the books in the courtyard and all those in the house , and many of those burnt were of such ...
... death of those innocents , but the priest would not agree without at least reading the titles first .... That night the housekeeper burned all the books in the courtyard and all those in the house , and many of those burnt were of such ...
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