as if this miraculous zeppelin of work he launched weekly into the pages of magazines and yearly onto the shelves of bookstores was an act of mischief. The truth was he knew how much was at stake in the act of writing -- that what we dream in the pages of books conditions our appetite for the world. He gave it back to us, sentence by beautiful sentence.
from John Freeman: John Updike: A post-war American chronicler is, sadly, silenced
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