Breakfast at the Bookstore with Brad and Nick #154

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From Reading and Writing, by Robertson Davies

THE

"The narrative -- that's the great matter."

From Writing

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From One Half of Robertson Davies

THE THEATRE

"We know from countless records that anyone in the Gallery who recognized a friend in the Pit gained his attention either by shouting or, if that failed, by spitting deftly on his hat."

From The Devil's Burning Throne

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From One Half of Robertson Davies

IT IS

"It is amazing how much we can forget, however often we are told, whereas a dirty limerick, once heard, clings to the mind like a burr."

From Insanity in Literature

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From A Voice from the Attic, by Robertson Davies

WITHOUT

"Don Quixote is not himself without Sancho; Don Juan is nowhere without Leporello; Pickwick was but a shadow until he found Sam Weller."

From The Comic Valet

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From For Your Eyes Alone: The Letters of Robertson Davies, edited by Judith Skelton Grant

DOSTOEVSKY

"Nevertheless, one cannot not read him, and I have always been intrigued by his assertion that he learnt much from Dickens. What can that have been?"

From a letter to Elisabeth Sifton, dated December 2, 1991

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From High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories, by Robertson Davies

THROW AN ORANGE

"If you were to throw an orange in any English graduate seminar you would hit a foetal Henry James, or an embryo James Joyce; road-company Northrop Fryes and Hallowwe'en versions of Marshal McLuhan are to be found everywhere."

From Dickens Digested