“The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.” BookLanguageWallForeign LanguageInsulation Book:The Underground Man Source: The Underground Man
“The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.” WorldKindBookPastWallLibraryDisasterIntrovertDenseInsulation Author:Ross Macdonald
