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Contents: - A reader in the looking-glass wood --
- Room for the shadow --
- On being Jewish --
- Meanwhile, in another part of the forest --
- The further off from England --
- Homage to Proteus --
- Borges in love --
- Borges and the longed-for Jew --
- Faking it --
- The death of Che Guevara --
- The blind bookkeeper --
- The perseverance of truth --
- AIDS and the poet --
- The full stop --
- In praise of words --
- A brief history of the page --
- The voice that says "I" --
- Final answers --
- What song the sirens sang --
- Notes towards a definition of the ideal reader --
- How Pinocchio learned to read --
- Candide in Sanssouci --
- The gates of paradise --
- Time and the doleful knight --
- Saint Augustine's computer --
- Reading white for black --
- The secret sharer --
- Honoring Enoch Soames --
- Jonah and the whale --
- The legend of the dodos --
- In memoriam --
- God's spies --
- Once again, Troy --
- Art and blasphemy --
- At the mad hatter's table --
- Notes towards a definition of the ideal library --
- The library of the wandering Jew --
- The library as home --
- The end of reading.
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