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...
La culture, c'est un effort permanent de l'être pour échapper à sa vile condition de primate sous-civilisé.
Book and reader, if they meet up at the right moment, it can make sparks fly, set you alight, change your life. It can, I promise you.
