For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.

Quote by William H Gass

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Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic...

Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic...

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered...

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered...

Getting even is one reason for writing.

Getting even is one reason for writing.