The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the author.
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the author.
“In vain, we endeavor to throw a sunny and joyous air over our picture of this period; nothing passes before our fancy but a crowd of sad-visaged people, moving duskily through a dull gray atmosphere.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne | “Old News”