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 14
... eyes , see each word come at the same time . Night swallows the walls of the room . The story ends . We don't move ... eyes locked ? How the one left will look only death in the eye , the way the wolf and its prey look at each other for ...
... eyes , see each word come at the same time . Night swallows the walls of the room . The story ends . We don't move ... eyes locked ? How the one left will look only death in the eye , the way the wolf and its prey look at each other for ...
Page 106
... eyes are like the eyes of someone attending To a fragile work , familiar and demanding Some work of delicate surfaces or threads . Someone is reading the way a rare child reads , A kind of changeling reading for love of reading , For ...
... eyes are like the eyes of someone attending To a fragile work , familiar and demanding Some work of delicate surfaces or threads . Someone is reading the way a rare child reads , A kind of changeling reading for love of reading , For ...
Page 115
... eyes of anyone who might be coming to call upon the family . And then my thoughts , too , formed a similar sort of recess , in the depths of which I felt that I could bury myself and re- main invisible even while I looked at what went ...
... eyes of anyone who might be coming to call upon the family . And then my thoughts , too , formed a similar sort of recess , in the depths of which I felt that I could bury myself and re- main invisible even while I looked at what went ...
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