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About the library,” he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page.”Will you write like Mr. Blake or like yourself?” I inquired.He wrote and whispered the words aloud as he did. “I am in the library. It smells like old stuff.””It smells familiar,” I suggested. “It smells like words.” Because his left side was to me, I couldn’t easily take his hand to write.”Books are boring,” James said as he wrote.”They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown,” I offered.He thought about this and then wrote with a smile, “I hate books.
