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“The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais.”
Roger Shattuck
“Words do not reflect the world, not because there is no world, but because words are not mirrors.”
Roger Shattuck
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“There is something about a literary work- its vision, its transparence, its metaphoric quality- that makes it very strong magic.”
Roger Shattuck, Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time

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