Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

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I feel as though I am living in an Oulipian1 nightmare. In a story called A Few Musketeers, Hervé Le Tellier portrays a situation in which all the numbers in his life change. It starts with the number of his bookshelves increasing, and the titles of his books changing, such as Fahrenheit 451 becoming Fahrenheit 4522.

Because of a combination of …

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