Bookish Matters

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

—Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

flesh and blood

I have wished to keep my Reader in the company of flesh and blood.

-William Wordsworth, from "Preface to Lyrical Ballads"

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