Milorad Pavic Quotes
And He Gave Me A Few Of The Xeroxed Sheets Of Paper Lying On The Table In Front Of Him. As He Passed Them To Me, His Thumb Brushed Mine And I Trembled From The Touch. I Had The Sensation That Our Past And Our Future Were In Our Fingers And That They Had Touched. And So, When I Began To Read The Proffered Pages, I At One Moment Lost The Train Of Thought In The Text And Drowned It In My Own Feelings. In These Seconds Of Absence And Self-oblivion, Centuries Passed With Every Read But Uncomprehended And Unabsorbed Line, And When, After A Few Moments, I Came To And Re-established Contact With The Text, I Knew That The Reader Who Returns From The Open Seas Of His Feelings Is No Longer The Same Reader Who Embarked On That Sea Only A Short While Ago. I Gained And Learned More By Not Reading Than By Reading Those Pages ...
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