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Mr. Kauderer the Farmer
A bookseller helps the Reader and Ludmilla after they both realize that there is a printing error in their copies of Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler. The bookseller helps teach the Reader that despite the air of authority books have, they aren’t infallible objects, since they are still made and sold by humans.
Bookseller Quotes in If on a winter’s night a traveler
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Chapter 2
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And so the Other Reader makes her happy entrance into your field of vision, Reader, or, rather, into the field of your attention; or, rather, you have entered a magnetic field from whose attraction you cannot escape. Don’t waste time, then, you have a good excuse to strike up a conversation, a common ground, just think a moment, you can show off your vast and various reading, go ahead, what are you waiting for?
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Bookseller Quotes in If on a winter’s night a traveler
The If on a winter’s night a traveler quotes below are all either spoken by Bookseller or refer to Bookseller. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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And so the Other Reader makes her happy entrance into your field of vision, Reader, or, rather, into the field of your attention; or, rather, you have entered a magnetic field from whose attraction you cannot escape. Don’t waste time, then, you have a good excuse to strike up a conversation, a common ground, just think a moment, you can show off your vast and various reading, go ahead, what are you waiting for?
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