I lie in bed until the voice says Get up and live, then I put on my slippers and read my usual ten pages of Chateaubriand over breakfast.Why Chateaubriand?Because it is an impossibly long book, and long out of fashion, because Baudelaire claimed him, in a letter to Sainte-Beuve, as the father of dandyism, because Proust heard in Chateaubriand's style the fragile echoing call of an owl in the woods at night, because the book I want to write seems to me as impossible.
[
add
]
[
|
|
...
]