“If there is sich a thing as a Author, I’m his favourite chara’ter. He does me fathoms better’n he does you—fathoms, he does. And he likes doing me. He keeps me on deck mostly all the time, crutch and all”
—Long John Silver & Captain Smollett argue fiction & morality between chapters, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Persons of the Tale” – download a free ebook here:
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