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Post date: Oct 14, 2014 5:06:13 PM
Da quale romanzo è tratto il brano che segue?
«How thrilling,» he said warmly when I, half-euphoric, was finally played out. «How very romantic.»
«Well, we're all quite used to it out there, you see,» I said, trying not to fidget, flushed with the brilliance of my success.
«And what does a person with such a romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?» He asked this as if, having had the good fortune to catch such a rare bird as myself, he was anxious to extract my opinion while I was still captive in his office.
«If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective,» I said, «I think romantics are frequently the best classicists.»
He laughed. «The great romantics are often failed classicists. ...»
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