“A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.” LittlesBookMatterLastsUsedModernActivityWasteStandingDown AndTradeUsed To BeFranceChairsFriendlyRequestLittle TimeTransactionsBookshopsDevouringBooksellersBrowsing Author:Jules de Goncourt
“A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.” PeopleHumansEyeHuman BeingsTreeComfortOffersDown AndSicknessShadeShedSilhouettesPrunes Author:Jules de Goncourt
