graydaisy
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i read all of "Salamander" by Thomas Wharton while sitting in my car in a stranger's driveway while my boyfriend worked on their computer and a giant golden retriever contemplated me. i am so grateful for the experience. i really loved the very beginning.
"I can't read the words at first. The text is like a slender black door This could be any book.
A treatise, Bougainville suggests. A history.
Or a novel, the girl says. I can open it anywhere, even to the last page, and find myself at the beginning of a story.
And where will you start this time?
The girl gazes slowly around the ruin of the shop.
This time......"
Brilliant!
"I can't read the words at first. The text is like a slender black door This could be any book.
A treatise, Bougainville suggests. A history.
Or a novel, the girl says. I can open it anywhere, even to the last page, and find myself at the beginning of a story.
And where will you start this time?
The girl gazes slowly around the ruin of the shop.
This time......"
Brilliant!
Very magical with beautiful prose.