As to the sentences “Few fiction writers have written so affectionately about ideas” (127-129), “You are what you contemplate, so…

As to the sentences “Few fiction writers have written so affectionately about ideas” (127-129), “You are what you contemplate, so choose wisely” (lines 150-151), “slavery ended in Brazil only in 1888” (lines 119-120) and “Above all looms the figure of the bibliomane” (lines 94-95), it is correct to state that