In Memoriam John Updike

[Michael Bailey]

"Bech saved Petrescu for last, and walloped his back, for the man had
led him to remember, what he was tempted to forget in America, that
reading can be the best part of a man's life."

"His knees trembled, as if after an arduous climb.  He had made it, he
was here, in Heaven.  Now what?"

(both from _Bech, a Book_)

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"Frenesi's eyes, even on the aging ECO stock, took over the frame, a
defiance of blue unfadable."