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          You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in  the  expectation  of  extraordinary  experiences:  from  books,  from  people,  from  journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst. This is the conclusion you have reached, in your personal life and also in general matters, even international affairs. What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed  area  like  the  field  of  books,  where  you  can  be  lucky  or  unlucky,  but  the  risk  of disappointment isn't serious.           ...