On Christmas Eve, while the Perfect Reader sits in his armchair immersed in a book-so absorbed that he has let the fire go out-I propose to slip gently down the chimney and leave this tribute in his stocking. It is not a personal tribute. I speak, on behalf of the whole fraternity of writers, this word of gratitude-and envy.
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