Yeah, I know, I'm just so crap at anything long... Crap, isn't it! I do dip INTO Paradise Lost... but I just can't see me reading David Copperfield at this stage. I'd rather read the Proust.
I had a terrible shock one day at about fifteen, when I suddenly had a sharp sense of the finiteness of one's reading life, and realised I would probably never read Le Rouge et le Noir. It was like, well, you can talk all you like about Stendhal... but he just isn't really THAT likely to get to the top of my list!
Shocking.
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