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Pandora: Have I burned all the libraries of Babel?

It's giving Book of the New Sun, where you know immediately that the reread is going to be incredible

'The people in this book might be going to have lived a long, long time from now in Northern California.'

Explications/Interpretations (1984)

Soothsayers and Omens (76)

Pantagruel + Almanacs (Screech Translation)

Pantagruel Ch. 8

In short, let me see you an abyss of erudition.

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Almanac 1535 Preface

... for in the first of his Aphorisms, Hippocrates says 'Life is short: the Art is long':

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The Homecoming Singer (1971)

New reprint in my hands, let's fucking go

'Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?'

I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still.

"Because,' he said, 'I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. ... '

Reading Mandelbaum

Glad I picked this up, putting the original unedited poems from the newspaper column makes it feel much more of the time, although Mehitabel's role is massively less than the more well-known collected editions that came later. I think I prefer the more high-minded and whimsical literary tone of the collected editions, but it is interesting how significant the editing for those editions was vs how the poems started.