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1 " Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. "
2 " Sketches of mad skies spilling stars caught in spiraling gyres, diagrams for constructing sextants tall as a man and armillary spheres to mimic the motion of the cosmos. He decides that he must have all of it, that he will cram the little observatory with maps and charts, clocks and compasses, and instruments for bringing the sky nearer. "
