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  1. Michael Chabon _ Maps and Legends: Reading and

    The handsome Vintage Internationals edition of Nabokov's Ada, or, Ardor-an extended riff on alternate-world and time theories and a key early example in the retro-futuristic subgenre of science fiction that years later came to be known as steampunk-would look out of place in the science-fiction section, with the blue-foil lettering, the starships, the furry-faced aliens, the electron-starred vistas of cyberspace.
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  2. Michael Chabon _ Maps and Legends: Reading and

    Telling the truth when the truth matters most is almost always a frightening prospect.
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  3. Michael Chabon _ Maps and Legends: Reading and

    a momentary gain in one's own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee;
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    stories make life so much better.
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  5. Michael Chabon _ Maps and Legends: Reading and

    In order to destroy the world, it becomes necessary to save it.
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  6. Michael Chabon _ Maps and Legends: Reading and

    Superheroes spend a lot of time wishing they could just stay home, spend time with their families and loved ones, date the girl they love, be like everybody else.
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  7. Michael Chabon _ Maps and Legends: Reading and

    Hyperbolic myths of origin have from the earliest times served to lend a paradoxical plausibility to the biographies of heroes.
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  8. Michael Chabon _ Maps and Legends: Reading and

    We can't take pleasure in a work of art, not in good conscience, without accepting the implicit intention of the artist to please us.
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  9. Michael Chabon _ Maps and Legends: Reading and

    The truth is that comic-book creators have simply lost the habit of telling stories to children. And how sad is that?
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  10. Michael Chabon _ Maps and Legends: Reading and

    An excess of the desire to appear grown up is one of the defining characteristics of adolescence.
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  11. Michael Chabon _ Maps and Legends: Reading and

    Children did not abandon comics; comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children.
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  12. Michael Chabon _ Maps and Legends: Reading and

    But we have learned to mistrust and despise our human aptitude for being entertained, and in that sense we get the entertainment we deserve.
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