Lost plays

David Markson, from This Is Not a Novel (2001).

There’s also Sappho to consider, who is thought to have written about 10,000 lines of poetry. About 650 survive. I used to ask my students to imagine knowing the Beatles (or any musicians) from one or two songs and nothing else but scattered fragments. “I read the news today, oh boy.”

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