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Peter Greenaway

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Too late. Too late to retreat. Your heart is open. The book has got you. Your body is wide open. This rat of a book has invaded your privacy, worried its feeling into your entrails by every private passage.
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From the eighth book, "The Book of the Seducer"

 
Peter Greenaway

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