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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarna

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A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes...more

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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]

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Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, a...more

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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, a...more