“Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.”
Alberto Manguel (1948) writer
Ordainers of The Universe, p. 198.
A History of Reading (1996)
“Nagiko, I am waiting for you. Meet me at the library. Any library. Every library. Yours, Jerome.”
Jerome's suicide note
The Pillow Book
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