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    • CommentTimeNov 20th 2008
     

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    The 1st sentence of the 1st paragraph of this page feels as if it contains a great truth -- that our relationship to literature is analogous to our relationship to life. Lessing doesn't say this in her authoritative voice that has earlier been commented on, but I think the hesitations in this sentence make the truth stronger.