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The Bookseller's Tale QUOTES

The Bookseller's Tale QUOTES

1 " Where do we go in dreams if not to a universal library? Such a infinite library would be brain-lik, characterised by labyrinthine passages where firing synapses distantly crackle, mythic beings appear and vanish, all is limitless but obscurely connected: Pan’s Labyrinth meets The Master and Margarita. "

― Martin Latham , The Bookseller's Tale

2 " I have seen this in thirty years of bookselling: customers stroking a book’s cover, peeking under the jacket, surreptitiously closing their eyes to smell the valley of pages - this sometimes accompanied by a quiet moan of pleasure- hugging it after purchase, and even giving it a little kiss. "

― Martin Latham , The Bookseller's Tale

3 " When one realizes the tremendous evolution of one's being which occurs in a lifetime one is bound to ask: ...did I learn my lesson here on earth? "

― Martin Latham , The Bookseller's Tale

4 " Nothing lasts. Our frail idea of self morphs and shape-shifts, then becomes a line on a death certificate and a few family anecdotes. (...) What if the layers of societal self were burnt away, could some idea of our individuality live on in a book, if that book was written in, even cut and pasted with thoughts and cuttings? "

― Martin Latham , The Bookseller's Tale

5 " When one realizes the tremendous evolution of one's being which occurs in a lifetime one is bound to as: ...did I learn my lesson here on earth? "

― Martin Latham , The Bookseller's Tale