Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the c — Michael Dirda
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the c — Michael Dirda
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the c — Michael Dirda
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the c — Michael Dirda
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the c — Michael Dirda
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Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

— Michael Dirda
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