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Would it be possible, he wondered, to stand up before the world and with the utmost conviction spew out lies and nonsense? To say that windmills were knights, that a barber__ basin was a helmet, that puppets were real people? Would it be possible to persuade others to agree with what he said, even though they did not believe him? In other words, to what extent would people tolerate blasphemies if they gave them amusement? The answer is obvious, isn__ it? To any extent. For the proof is that we still read the book. It remains highly amusing to us. And that__ finally all anyone wants out of a book__o be amused.
Paul Auster City of Glass
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Would it be possible, he wondered, to stand up before the world and with the utmost conviction spew out lies and nonsense? To say that windmills were knights, that a barber__ basin was a helmet, that puppets were real people? Would it be possible to persuade others to agree with what he said, even though they did not believe him? In other words, to what extent would people tolerate blasphemies if they gave them amusement? The answer is obvious, isn__ it? To any extent. For the proof is that we still read the book. It remains highly amusing to us. And that__ finally all anyone wants out of a book__o be amused.
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City of Glass

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