"And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over our grave,' as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us - the recognition of something we never knew was there, or of something we vaguely felt as a flicker or a shadow, whose ghostly form rises and passes back into us before we can see what it is, leaving us older and wiser."

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About Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel is an Argentine-Canadian writer, translator, editor, and essayist known for works on reading, libraries, and literary culture.

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