Showing posts with label Antwerp. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 2, 2018

Antwerp

"Tell that stupid Arnold Bennet[t] that all his rules about plot only apply to novels that are copies of other novels."

~~ from Antwerp by Roberto Bolano
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