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56 The Dress with Books on It Is Too Small In a local salvage outlet, a meta-store avid For disaster, there’s a dress with books on it: Printed shelves of “classics.” Perfect for the girl with boundaries For her dates: “Get your hand away From The Mill on the Floss,” she could say, or “Ethan Frome is off-limits.” Buy it, why don’t you, and take it folded To the library, to be the slim librarian’s plumage As she haunts the stacks. Or convert it To a tablecloth, so that you may eat risotto Off Great Expectations and rest your wineglass On Moby Dick. Imagine the textile mill: Clack, Darcy asks Elizabeth for her hand, Whirr, Anna Karenina throws herself beneath a train. Frenetic weavings of stories, till they’re whole cloth. Soon, a reporter will write miracle fabric takes surfaces to new depths, saves literature. ...

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