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What else. Neil called last night and said that I put him uptight and he really wanted things to be natural and flow. I said why didn’t he come to dinner tomorrow? He said he had to go to San Francisco, and I said, how about Friday, and he said [he would] if he could. He said, what was I doing toni…

In my seminar, I am teaching students how to read, though not the way I read, because my way of reading is entirely singular. I read the texts in such a way that the students will discover the secrets of reading. For one thing, I historicize. This is vital, because a part of what one does when one …

There have always been⁠—and here I prefer to turn to my accomplice and friend Stendhal⁠—writers without readers. In The Life of Henry Brulard, which was written in the 1830s and which is an absolute masterpiece, Stendhal quite rightly acknowledges that he will probably have to wait until 1880 befor…