I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it… — Dai Sijie
I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.
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