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The Latin word textum means "web." No one's text is more tightly woven than Marcel Proust's; to him nothing was tight or durable enough.

A man listening to a story is in the company of the storyteller; even a man reading one shares this compan- ionship. The reader of a novel, however, is isolated, more so than any other reader.

Never has a storyteller embedded his report deeper in natural history than Hebel manages to do in this chronology. Read it carefully. Death appears in it with the same regularity as the Reaper does in the processions that pass around the cathedral clock at noon.