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The Library of Pierre Menard
"Menard (perhaps without wishing to) has enriched,
by means of a new technique, the hesitant and rudimentary art of reading: the
technique is one of deliberate anachronism and erroneous
attributions. This technique, with its infinite applications, urges
us to run through the Odyssey
as if it were written after the
Aeneid, and to read Le jardin du Centaure
by Madame Henri Bachelier
as
if it were by Madame Henri Bachelier."
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