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Sophia (16) to Giulia: If reading made you lose weight, you’d be thin as!

In some people the love of reading becomes a complete obsession. Giulia was and remained one such addict. She kept large scrapbooks of clippings, and covered the walls of her tiny study with articles and pictures culled from the papers. Anything odd, interesting, affecting.  To this day, the same obsession …

Orlando (12) to Giulia reading and cutting out clippings on the dining room table: What are you doing, Mum?  Is this what your life has come to? Are you seeking vainly for some 

reference to yourself? Other people read a newspaper and then throw it out. You take it to pieces and keep it. What use is that? You come across some old article. You read– ah, they opened the bridge! So what? It’s been, it’s gone. It’s later, too late!

Unrepentant, incorrigible in this unswitchoffable propensity to interpret, Giulia continued to read on.

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