Maria Semple Bookstore Walkthrough

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Memoirs of Hadrian Books

"You haven't read Memoirs of Hadrian? This is a beautiful novel. This is the one I told Oprah about."

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Epictetus · "We were talking about other Stoic themed novels and you only knew about Epictetus, which is very Epictetus..."
0:10 The Moviegoer · "Have you read Walker Percy's The Moviegoer? That is the other famous one."
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