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The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

William H. Gass
Book, Tails, Gone
"Habitations of the Word: Essays". Book by William H. Gass, www.nytimes.com. 1984.
The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.