George Bernard Shaw was an anti-Semite. (81)
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Protagonist first seen poised abstractedly amid a kind of transitory disarray? Cartoons heaped and piled
Innumerable books, Reader presumably means? (82)
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The name Kierkegaard translates from the Danish as church-yard. (83)
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Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. (84)
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Dickens, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, and Maxim Gorky never finished grade school. Sean O’Casey and Alberto Moravia did not either. 
O’Casey, at forty-three, was working with a pick and shovel when his first play was produced. (85)
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Where precisely would Protagonist live, if near a derelict cemetery? Possibly some sort of structure just within the grounds themselves?
That building abandoned also? Protagonist possibly stealing electricity through wires connected to the base of a streetlamp outside?
Reader sees a red brick building, in fact. Fairly small and falling into ruin, but of two stories. (86)
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None of John Milton’s daughters was given an education, though two of the three were taught to read to him in his blindness. 
In languages of which they did not understand one word. (87)
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