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The demise of the common reader
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New Straits Times
08-23-2000
The demise of the common reader
Byline: Swapan Chakravorty
Edition: Life and Times; 2*
Section: Literary & Books
Column: Text & pretext fortnightly with The Literature Collective
MENELIK II, the emperor of Ethiopia, enjoyed chewing pages from his Bible. He died after ingesting the complete Book of Kings. Charles Lamb confessed to Coleridge that he was rather partial to books which contained traces of butt...
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