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When they dreamed of turning iron and metal into gold, they called it alchemy....
Author:
Matthew Pearl
Book:
The Last Bookaneer
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When they dreamed of turning iron and metal into gold, they called it alchemy. The much more far-fetched dream of turning bound sheafs of plain paper into fortunes, they call publishing.
( Matthew Pearl )
[ The Last Bookaneer ]
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