Early on, Protagonist will naturally become familiar with most of the gravestones. (132)
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Both of Paul Celan’s parents went to their deaths in German concentration camps. (133)
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Rudyard Kipling once lived in Vermont. (134)
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After Cesare Pavese committed suicide, several young women none of his friends had ever seen before appeared at his funeral weeping, in the hope of being taken for former mistresses. (135)
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They make a desert and they call it peace. (136)
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Tacitus conceived of Spain being due west of Britain.

The Knight of Pentacles, Reversed: A brave Man, but out of Employment, Idle, Negligent. (137) 

Boris Pasternak so admired Rilke that he carried two letters from him in his wallet for decades. (138)
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Nothing now, but Protagonist’s books.
Those, and the graves of strangers. (139)
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Working as a publisher’s reader, George Meredith rejected The Way of All Flesh. 
Working as a publisher’s reader, André Gide rejected Swann’s Way. (140)
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Saint Hildegard of Bingen. (141)
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Collector is wondering if this project is even possible?

Or would Reader rather see Protagonist live somewhere else entirely? 
An isolated house at a beach, for instance? (142)
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Although perhaps without the even more absolute solitude that might establish? 
At least with others on a floor above? A woman? Women? (143)
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Tomorrow it will rain in Bouville. (144)
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