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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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