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• Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet…
• Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.
• I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a…
• Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.
• Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
• Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of…
• In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture…
• Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.
• In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic…
• The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

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