Books aren’t made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There’s some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it’s back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands like that in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, ect. Continue this comparison.
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Oh, Flaubert. I am fond of him because he’s a little ridiculous but in a precious way. Look at this, talking about his...
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