I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. Michael Dirda uses this famous passage to muse on style and tone, and the austerity of his prose. Read.
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I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.

Michael Dirda uses this famous passage to muse on style and tone, and the austerity of his prose. Read.

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