But as the Count advanced through Essays.... : Quote by Amor Towles

“ But as the Count advanced through Essays Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen, his goal seemed to recede into the distance. It was suddenly as if the book were not a dining room table at all, but a sort of Sahara. And having emptied his canteen, the Count would soon be crawling across its sentences with the peak of each hard-won page revealing but another page beyond..... ”

Amor Towles
  • From : A Gentleman in Moscow
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