He lost his appetite for reading. He was.... : Quote by John Updike

“ He lost his appetite for reading. He was afraid of being overwhelmed again. In mystery novels people died like dolls being discarded; in science fiction enormities of space and time conspired to crush the humans ; and even in P.G. Wodehouse he felt a hollowness, a turning away from reality that was implicitly bitter, and became explicit in the comic figures of futile parsons. ”

John Updike
  • From : Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories
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