Originally posted by vinteuil
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PS - and of course I don't care for the rules of them as despise "detective fiction" - cos Simenon is Great Litrachur.
PS4 - and Adolfo Bioy Casares - and Borges - and Calvino.
Richard Tarleton mentioned Douglas Adams - yes, I have a lot of time for a writer who can describe drinks from a machine as "tasting almost, but not quite completely, unlike tea" - and who has such tempered optimism for all that technology has to offer that he can imagine a time when elevators can be given a "personality", and that this will inevitably mean that one of them will develop vertigo.
* - and Marquez, and Eco ... (Just who is the "ed" anyway?)
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