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  1. Jonathan Swift _ Gulliver's Travels

    He put this engine {a silver pocket watch} into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water-mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us, {if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly} that he seldom did any thing without consulting it. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life."
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  2. Tom Robbins _ Jitterbug Perfume

    If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if uncertain whether to advance or to retreat. Perhaps it is its perpetual ambivalence that is its secret charm. Somewhere between Preservation Hall and the Superdome, between voodoo and cybernetics, New Orleans listens eagerly to the seductive promises of the future but keeps at least one foot firmly planted in its history, and in the end, conforms, like an artist, not to the world but to its own inner being--ever mindful of its personal style.
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  3. Orhan Pamuk _ The Museum of Innocence

    This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
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  4. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes
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  5. Barbara Kingsolver _ Small Wonder

    Writing, which was both painful and palliative for me, turned out to be my own way of giving blood in a crisis. I can only hope this unit of words will have a longer shelf life than the forty-two days of a unit of blood, as this critical time blends seamlessly into the next one.
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