"When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat in his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair in which he was sitting did he, as he puts it 'wake out of the book.'" #ExLibris #AnneFadiman #ConfessionsOfACommonReader #FirstLines
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