From the Book of Persepolis:

Marji calls the man signing books at the table “a kind of local Charles Dickens”. What does that tell us about the mans occupation?

imparadis't in one anothers arms  

the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill  

of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust,  

where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,  

among our other torments not the least,  

still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines;  

yet let me not forget what i have gain'd  

from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:  

one fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd,  

forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidd'n?  

suspicious, reasonless. why should their lord  

envie them that? can it be sin to know,

this is what i put and it was correct

it's a way for authors to communicate with reader in this time period. books from the past can teach us about life.

the answer is

wow there were a thousand people in the concert. that’s great