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Dec 02
Poets Ranked By Beard Weight - “Poets Ranked by Beard Weight is a classic of Edwardian esoterica, a privately printed leaflet offered by subscription to the informed man of fashion and as a divertissement au courant for reading bins and cocktail tables of parlor cars and libraries and smoking lounges of gentlemen’s clubs” Via the very fine, A Journey Round My Skull - Unhealthy Book Festishism From a Reader, Collector, and Amateur Historian or Forgotten Literature.
“Subtle he needs must be, who could seduce Angels”
-John Milton
Art by A Visionary Artist A. Andrew Gonzalez
Charles Dickens was in a train crash and went aboard the burning train to save a manuscript!
“ I read,” I say. “I study and read. I bet I’ve read everything you read. Don’t think I haven’t. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM-drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.” My instincts concerning syntax and mechanics are better than your own, I can tell, with all due respect. But it transcends the mechanics. I’m not a machine. I feel and believe. I have opinions. Some of them are interesting. I could, if you’d let me, talk and talk.
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David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest) (via bugseatbooks) (via booklover)
Wild thing, I think I love you….
Graduel de St. Katharinenthal 14th C.
via www.faksimile.ch
“ Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that’s where I imagine it - there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live forever in your own private library.
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka On the Shore) (via senshuk)
From the German National Library, a postcard dated 1918 from Franz Kafka to his publisher, Kurt Wolff.
Oliver Twist First Edition
A manuscript of Fantastic Mr Fox at the Roald Dahl Centre, Great Missenden.
Illustration for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by Arthur Rackham
