August 2012
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A history of paperback books →
cathylibrary: How paperbacks transformed the way Americans read Here’s a little perspective: In 1939, gas cost 10 cents a gallon at the pump. A movie ticket set you back 20 cents. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the year’s bestselling hardcover book, was $2.75. For a nation suffering 20 percent…
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Un jour paraîtront nus homme et femme. … Ce couple se pétrit se confond se sépare En pleine pâte universelle: en eux s’unit Et se dédouble le Principe des genèses Que leur étreinte met en branle hors du temps (Sophia, 20) [One day man and woman will appear naked. … This couple kneads itself blends separates In the midst of the universal dough: in them comes together And splits apart the...
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