I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you…

Virginia Woolf
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I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). A change of perspective, Vintage
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I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). A change of perspective, Vintage

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