For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long gone, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means "place where I have collected passages from the most important books I have read." These passages hold some of the most crucial secrets in this sad and flammable world. ("Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography")
Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. (Calvino, quoted by Rabih Alameddine in "Koolaids: The Art of War", 4)
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