“I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.”

—  Woody Allen

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American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, p… 1935

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Context: The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The reader became the book; and summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book.
The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The words were spoken as if there was no book,
Except that the reader leaned above the page,
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