OK SO I WNET TO MY THERAPISTS TODAY RIGHT YKNOW THERAPY AND SHIT
AND WHILE I WAS W AITING I FOUND THIS BOOK
AND IT WAS THE BEST MOME NT OF MY LIFE
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it’s cool to see different editions of the same book
Hurtfew Abbey was some fourteen miles north-west of York. The antiquity was all in the name. There had been an abbey but that was long ago; the present house had been built in the reign of Anne. It was very handsome and square and solid-looking in a fine park full of ghostly-looking wet trees (for the day was becoming rather misty). A river (called the Hurt) ran through the park and a fine classical-looking bridge led across it.
—Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed. X
do you ever finish a book and then close it sort of reverently and just hold it close to you for a moment
and then for a while you see the world a bit differently because you’re still half in and half out of that book
Spectacular Libraries in Europe.
“Best super villain plan ever.”
“It’s a terrible thing, what we did,” said Francis abruptly. “I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It’s a shame. I feel bad about it.”
“Well, of course, I do too,” said Henry matter-of-factly. “But not bad enough to want to go to jail for it.”
Francis snorted and poured himself another shot of whiskey and drank it straight off. “No,” he said. “Not that bad.”
Donna Tartt, The Secret History
