” Another silence follows, this one less welcome. In the more prudish centuries after its publication, pictures from the book were censored, blacked out, or torn up entirel ” There is a slight suggestion in his voice that this is a fact about Charlie worth bearing in mind, an important character trait, this fault-finding. We duck into a corner.
With the lights out, the room comes to shadows. They’re original. fessorships, advancement—all the fixations that come with wanting to serve books, then gradually wanting books to serve you. Of course, we didn’t know all that on the late October night, only six weeks after we first met him, when he came to Paul’s door with his most daring plan to date.
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