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Assoc for Scottish Literature on Nostr: “I never read such an impious book,” said the reader, throwing it on the floor. ...

“I never read such an impious book,” said the reader, throwing it on the floor.
“You need not hurt me,” said the book; “you will only get less for me second hand, and I did not write myself.”

For World Book Day (UK & Ireland), a fable about a book: Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Reader”

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