On the whole, infinity is a fairly palpable aspect of this business of publishing, if only because it extends a dead author's existence beyond the limits he envisioned, or provides a living author with a future he cannot measure. In other words, this business deals with the future which we all prefer to regard as unending.

In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

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