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521 The Empress Messalina (with Honor Cargill-Martin) | My Last Book with Robert Chandler

The History of Literature

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The Power of Reading

The final pages of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust gave me a feeling of awe. Despite a lifetime of reading, I cannot honestly say that I've ever experienced awe as a result of reading something. There are works that have been so influential and Freud even so influential that it takes my breath away.

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