Walter Benjamin:
One may, if necessary, read the newspaper while eating. But never a novel. These are two conflicting obligations.
From ”Reading Novels,“ in The Storyteller Essays, trans. Tess Lewis (New York: New York Review Books, 2019).
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Newspapers and novels
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Is that a dare?
ReplyDeleteLOL! You’d have to ask Walter Benjamin.
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