przeczytane:
"in a lending library you see people's real tastes, not their pretended ones, and one thing that strikes you is how completely the 'classical' english novelists have dropped out of favour. it is simply useless to put dickens, thackeray, jane austen, trollope, etc. into the ordinary lending library, nobody takes them out. at the mere sight of a nineteenth-century novel people say, 'oh, but that's old!' and shy away immediately. yet it is always fairly easy to sell dickens, just as it is always easy to sell shakespeare. dickens is one of the authors whom people are 'always meaning to' read, and, like the bible, is widely known at second hand."
(george orwell)
i do posłuchania.
the smell of books - i like it :)
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OdpowiedzUsuńi o tym dlaczego od czasu, jak pracował w księgarni-antykwariacie, prawie nie kupuje książek. "the sweet smell of decaying paper appeals to me no longer. it is too closely associated in my mind with paranoiac customers and dead bluebottles."
straszie miłe mi dźwięki. płyną sobie i płyną.
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