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The book you're reading, or the literary figure you currently idolize, can colour your life as you live it. And this can create problems.
A self-help addict explains why. Partly it's the urge to become more effective—to write better to-do lists and keep the tidiest email account—and partly it's the fantasy thereof.
In both her poetry and her relationship with Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett understood love as an abstraction beyond everyday matters. But there are some things a girl reading the Brownings alone in her room could not have known about their life together.
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