“The place was part museum, part library, and part archive; I loved it at first sight…and smell, for here there were thousands of printed books, many very old indeed, and nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books.”

—  Dan Simmons, book The Fall of Hyperion

Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 32 (p. 269)

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