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“My reading has left impressions upon me as much as I have left impressions upon the books. A tattered copy of E. Starkie’s B. and a heavily marginalia-laden copy of B.’s Reflections have accompanied me for years, shaping me much as prolonged sitting shapes an armchair. The cushion bears the imprint of the body only briefly, but the chair slowly shapes the spine that leans against it for part of a lifetime.”