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18205590 No.18205590 [Reply] [Original]

Why do so many old books end with the author putting the date they finished writing and the city they were writing in?

>> No.18205597

>>18205590
In case the cities dies some day.

>> No.18205761

>>18205597
kino thought

>> No.18205799

>>18205761
lisbon 1755, never forget.

>> No.18205801

>>18205597
based

>> No.18207257

>>18205590
Someone should put together a quiz of such endnotes where you have to identify the book in question.

A famous one:
>Trieste-Zurich-Paris, 1914-21

A harder one: I just finished a book which ends with a 10-page afterword where the author talks about how & when he came to write it:
>People ask me how I got from ——— to ——— and all I can say is that it's a matter of being friends with your head. Things come into the mind and wait to hook up with other things; there are places that can heighten your responses, and if you let your head go its own way it might, with luck, make interesting connections. On March 14th, 1974 I got lucky.