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Index
Cover Page
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Part One: Who Am I?
Chapter 1. A Reader in the Looking-Glass Wood
Chapter 2. Room for the Shadow
Chapter 3. On Being Jewish
Chapter 4. Meanwhile, in Another Part of the Forest
Chapter 5. The Further Off from England
Chapter 6. Homage to Proteus
Part Two: The Lesson of the Master
Chapter 7. Borges in Love
Chapter 8. Borges and the Longed-For Jew
Chapter 9. Faking It
Part Three: Memoranda
Chapter 10. The Death of Che Guevara
Chapter 11. The Blind Bookkeeper
Chapter 12. The Perseverance of Truth
Chapter 13. Aids and the Poet
Part Four: Wordplay
Chapter 14. The Full Stop
Chapter 15. In Praise of Words
Chapter 16. A Brief History of the Page
Chapter 17. The Voice That Says “I”
Chapter 18. Final Answers
Chapter 19. What Song the Sirens Sang
Part Five: The Ideal Reader
Chapter 20. Notes Towards a Definition of the Ideal Reader
Chapter 21. How Pinocchio Learned to Read
Chapter 22. Candide in Sanssouci
Chapter 23. The Gates of Paradise
Chapter 24. Time and the Doleful Knight
Chapter 25. Saint Augustine’s Computer
Part Six: Books as Business
Chapter 26. Reading White for Black
Chapter 27. The Secret Sharer
Chapter 28. Honoring Enoch Soames
Chapter 29. Jonah and the Whale
Chapter 30. The Legend of the Dodos
Part Seven: Crime and Punishment
Chapter 31. In Memoriam
Chapter 32. God’s Spies
Chapter 33. Once Again, Troy
Chapter 34. Art and Blasphemy
Chapter 35. At the Mad Hatter’s Table
Part Eight: The Numinous Library
Chapter 36. Notes Towards a Definition of the Ideal Library
Chapter 37. The Library of the Wandering Jew
Chapter 38. The Library as Home
Chapter 39. The End of Reading
Sources
Index
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