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The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books

Book by Robertson Davies · 3 quotes · Ifs, People, Serious

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“Sometimes there was a serious article on a hot topic, and I especially remember one by a bishop headed "Is Nudity Salacious?" The bishop thought it need not be, if encountered in the proper spirit, but he gave a lot of enlightening examples of conditions under which it might be, in his word, "inflammatory." There wasn't much nudity in our neck of the woods, and I enjoyed that article tremendously.”