No, no, I must no be so cynical! If books are traps, then let them be like terrariums: sealed up and still living miniatures of the world.Īnd wow, I liked this even more than the first book. I hate to think they are like a fishing weir to the swimming mind, a trap easily swum into but rarely escaped: a neurosis, a dogma, a dream. “Books are traps.“ But how are they so, and whom do they trap: the author or the reader? Perhaps they are just the boasts of vainglorious minds, and what we hold up as literature is in fact a cult of unlikable characters. Well, two days ago I finally picked it up. Suffice to say, it’s been sitting on my shelf unread for a while, for no real reason. I grabbed a paperback of this book as soon as I heard that the series got picked up by a publisher, just for the sake of having a matching pair.
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