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Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?'

Geraldine Brooks

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Manchmal möchte ich ein geistiges Buch brennen lassen, das mich von all den schmutzigen Visionen absucht, die die Literatur dort beschworen hat. Aber wie kommt man ohne "The Illiad" aus? Wie komme ich ohne Macbeth aus?

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