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“ This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a fictive one. ”

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One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!

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Reif Larsen Bathrooms Danger Fear

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said, it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.

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Reif Larsen Children Insincerity Listening

Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.

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Reif Larsen Libraries Self Society

A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.

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Reif Larsen Charts Ideas Maps Meaning