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Wolfe once asked me why the devil I ever pretended to read a book, and I told him for cultural reasons, and he said I might as well forgo the pains, that culture was like money, it comes easiest to those who need it least.
 
Wolfe once asked me why the devil I ever pretended to read a book, and I told him for cultural reasons, and he said I might as well forgo the pains, that culture was like money, it comes easiest to those who need it least.
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== Chapter 2, page 18 ==
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‘As you know, the book came. I read it last night.’
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‘Why did you read it?’
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‘Don’t badger me. I read it because it was a book.’

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Chapter 1, page 2 (Bantam, 1993)

Wolfe once asked me why the devil I ever pretended to read a book, and I told him for cultural reasons, and he said I might as well forgo the pains, that culture was like money, it comes easiest to those who need it least.

Chapter 2, page 18

‘As you know, the book came. I read it last night.’

‘Why did you read it?’

‘Don’t badger me. I read it because it was a book.’