Armande Béjart. (212)
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Tolstoy’s wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times. (213)
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An illiterate, underbred book. Said Virginia Woolf of Ulysses. (214)
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I can’t even pronounce the filthy thing. Said Wallace Stevens of the word womb in a poem. (215)
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All legends to the contrary, Empedocles did not leap into Mount Etna. Or even die in Sicily. (216)
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Byron was nine when he was introduced to sex by his nurse, one May Gray. (217)
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I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Big woman,
You made a bad boy out of me

How well insulated would the ceiling of a former garage be? Would Ishmael/Meursault/Kurtz be aware of virtually every movement on the floor above? (218)
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Tony Trollope, he was naturally called. (219)
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Madeleine Grey. The Chants d’Auvergne. (220)
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