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The Bookseller's Tale

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“When one realizes the tremendous evolution of one's being which occurs in a lifetime one is bound to as: ...did I learn my lesson here on earth?”

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“Nothing lasts. Our frail idea of self morphs and shape-shifts, then becomes a line on a death certificate and a few family anecdotes. (...) What if the layers of societal self were burnt away, could some idea of our individuality live on in a book, if that book was written in, even cut and pasted with thoughts and cuttings?”

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“I have found time and time again that people's childhood comfort book prefigures, to an almost comical degree which they cannot always see, their adult mission in life.”

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“Gli uomini erano letteralmente terrorizzati - e non sto esagerando - dalla possibilità che le donne potessero trarre dai libri una gratificazione sessuale, oppure un'emancipazione politica o spirituale. Tuttavia la minaccia più grande era probabilmente l'istruzione che potevano conquistare. Il ragionamento è cristallino: più letture uguale meno lavori domestici e meno devozione nei confronti dei mariti come depositari di saggezza e gratificazione.”

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“Where do we go in dreams if not to a universal library? Such a infinite library would be brain-lik, characterised by labyrinthine passages where firing synapses distantly crackle, mythic beings appear and vanish, all is limitless but obscurely connected: Pan’s Labyrinth meets The Master and Margarita.”

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