Blaise Cendrars lost an arm in World War I. As did one of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s brothers, a concert pianist. (195)
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Lice in the locks of literature, Tennyson called critics. (196)
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All page numbers mentioned are from 5th edition of Reader’s Block.

Or will the question persist? Why does Protagonist have no life? (197)
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Having written books of his own, would he have known other writers? (198)
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Does he not, now? (199)
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After Anne Sexton turned on her car’s engine in a closed garage to commit suicide, she sat drinking vodka while waiting. (200)
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Erinna of Telos, who died at nineteen. Twenty-three hundred years ago. (201)
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Politics in a work of literature is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert. (202)
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