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On Rereading
The first time through a book you read to find out what happens. Every time after that, you read to find out who you were.
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Notes, August
Four things from a month of not writing much: a misprint, a cheap notebook, a quiet chapter, and a letter that took nine days.
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A Due Date from 1987
A secondhand copy of Middlemarch still has its library card in the back. Someone renewed it four times.
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