
Check out this amazing house created by Livio de Marchi. That's my retirement home! (Or at least I'd like to have the roof for my retirement.) There's even more inside. For a tour, visit his website.
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.
Pretty interesting- thanks for that. Do you think he lives there, looks more like a musuem/art piece. Not so comfy.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you checked it out, Bruce. I think you're right, it looks like a piece of art.
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