''Reading a great novel is like talking to the dead.
There is no need for a psychic. When you read the words of a dead or absent
master, they sound in your brain and he or she is present in the room.''—Phyllis
Rose, The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading
(2014)Thursday, June 12, 2014
Quote of the Day (Phyllis Rose, on Reading a Great Novel)
''Reading a great novel is like talking to the dead.
There is no need for a psychic. When you read the words of a dead or absent
master, they sound in your brain and he or she is present in the room.''—Phyllis
Rose, The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading
(2014)
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