One of the very nice perks of working right up the stairs from Open Letter Books—I have just got my hands on a dog-eared advance reader’s copy of 2666.
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Had he read Democritus, he might have discovered, in philosophy's first collection of ethical precepts, among portents of atheism, and the vision of his own soul composed of round, smooth, especially mobile atoms, that it is the unexpected which occurs.
—William Gaddis, The Recognitions