To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.
That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it.
I prefer the company of books. When I'm reading, I'm never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be very intimate. Perhaps you know this feeling yourself? The sense that you're having an intellectual exchange with the author, following h...
