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Reverend Erik

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Moderator/admin of Grimoire.Social and the strange quark behind the Arnemancy podcast. A great lover of books. A collector of many strange volumes. Show me your spooky grimoires!

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66% complete! Reverend Erik has read 8 of 12 books.

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quoted As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser

Hans Zinsser: As I Remember Him (1940, Little, Brown and company) No rating

This work is an autobiography told in the third person, and includes coverage of his …

Chapter III: He speaks of his birth and childhood, and since he seemed to derive a nostalgic satisfaction from this, I allowed him to run on — though he introduced much that is irrelevant

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This book, which is an autobiography written as a biography of another person in which Zinsser plays both narrator and subject, has so far been primarily him roasting himself and him going off on weird tangents