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"We could become very depressed if we read the papers all the time.
Do we accept a character's moral flaws if we read about them?
What if we read the classics that way, or Shakespeare that way?
If we read it as fiction, which it is, in part, some of the air goes out.
But if we read online, flirt online, shop online, surely we could take satisfaction in giving online?
Mr Hofmann worries that if we read "The Radetzky March", we will stop there, sated by its magnificent range and conclusiveness.
Confession comes to life again if we read it alongside The Death of Ivan Ilyich rather than alongside the religious essays with which it is usually grouped.
Even if we read books and talk about them for four years, and then do something else more obviously remunerative, it won't be time wasted.
But (a paradox of representation) we would actually feel that we had a more intimate sense of Virginia Woolf if we read about her in someone else's diary.
Mails now idle, but if we read energetic women of this country aright, presses are already busy printing further appeals to finance a society to produce population.
Which leads you to ask: If we read a book and forget that we read it, is that the same as never having read it?
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