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“I know,” says my gentle master, “but think about one big thing.” | “I know,” says my gentle master, “but think about one big thing.” | ||
I concentrate on the new edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It works. My mind is less a palimpsest, more a blank page. | I concentrate on the new edition of the ''Encyclopedia Britannica''. It works. My mind is less a palimpsest, more a blank page. | ||
“You may be too young to remember,” he says, “James Jones and James T. Farrell and James Gould Cozzens and dozens like them. I took them all on, absorbed all they had and went on my way, just like Shakespeare ate up | “You may be too young to remember,” he says, “James Jones and James T. Farrell and James Gould Cozzens and dozens like them. I took them all on, absorbed all they had and went on my way, just like Shakespeare ate up | ||