AtD1: My Faithful Readers

[Ya Sam]

See also on readers

GR

"...a dictionary of technical German, an P.O. Special Handbook or Town 
Plan—and usually, unless it's been pinched or thrown away, a News of the 
World somewhere too—Slothrop's a faithful reader.

"Mark, Reader, my cry! Bend thy thoughts on the Sky, And in midst of 
prosperity, know thou may'st die. While the great Loom of God works in 
darkness above, And our trials here below are but threads of His Love."

Vineland

"Zoyd needed cash and also some advice about a quick change of appearance, 
and both were available from the landscape contractor Zoyd did some lawn and 
tree work for, Millard Hobbs, a former actor who'd begun as a company logo 
and ended up as majority owner of what'd been a modest enough lawn-care 
service its founder, a reader of forbidden books, had named The Marquis de 
Sod. "

M&D

"Alas, every reader of 'Novel' must be reckoned a soul in peril,— for she 
hath
made a D——l's bargain, squandering her most precious time, for
nothing in return but the meanest and shabbiest kinds of mental excitement. 
'Romance,' pernicious enough in its day, seems in Comparison wholesome."

"All the way back to the Visto, Mason is seiz'd by Monology. "Text,— he 
cries, and more than once, "it is Text,— and we are its readers, and its 
Pages are the Days turning. Unscrolling, as a Pilgrim's Itinerary map"

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