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Consolation and The Novel. (Literature).
MY WIFE ANNE will never be anywhere without a novel. She reads or listens to novels as reflexively as she breathes, blinks or swallows. Though I know her to have fine literary discernment I know equally she does not let this interfere one jot with her actual reading. She grazes upon the world's fiction as reindeer graze across the steppes of Siberia.
I can illustrate the range of her reading by disclosing how, back when you could assess the popularity of a public library book by glancing at the number of green and purple dates stamped on the inside cover, Anne would often select for her reading the less popular novels on the simple principle of equalising the ...
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