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Adventures of a Book-Fancier
"There is nothing that begins so easily and takes us so far as the collecting of books." --A. Edward Newton


The sky was sluiced with a clearer blue, air and sunlight blended for a keener intake of the lungs, faces seen along the street moved us with a livelier shock of interest and surprise.
Morley closes his essay with one of the most beautiful and moving passages in literature, one of the very "rare and sensational delights" which he is describing, those
...that set the mind moving on lovely journeys of its own, and mark off visits to a bookshop not as casual errands of reason, but as necessary acts of devotion. We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to discover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered souls.
So cool Jeff!
ReplyDeleteIs there any way I can properly put into words the complete flattery I feel and the utter blushiness of my current state upon clicking through to visit you, only to find that I'm featured (not only as an actual published writer, but award-winning no less) on your hypothetical cover? Let me just say, from your lips to my agent's ears. You are a flatterer. A very good one indeed!!!
ReplyDeleteHurrah! Hardy has finally broken his 100-year writer's block!
ReplyDeleteToo fabulous, Jeff. Throw in some good recipes and I would subscribe at once.