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He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of her. S...more

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Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

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They did go on so, don't you think, those Victorian poets, they took themselves so horribly seriously," he said, pushing the lift button, summoning it...more