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“From the moment I had started to read seriously, I had forced myself through all the major novels, the longer the better. I had read demanding philosophical texts. I had even made myself read poetry. Any gaps in my knowledge disturbed me: I would have hated to have been asked a question for which I had no answer.”

“Our world was vacant, exhausted. The literary result was what now encircled us, a never-ending chain of weak, bloodless confections with their pitiable first-person narrators. An alliance of mediocrity. A consensus of denial. Everyone was a hypocrite and a fraud. What they call equality was a leveling. Now we had to lie and pretend that everything was good when it wasn’t.”