"We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for the text, filling gaps, mending faults. And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder... as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us--the recognition of something we never knew was there..."

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About Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel is an Argentine-Canadian writer, translator, editor, and essayist known for works on reading, libraries, and literary culture.

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