‘The writer H. H. Munro said that the young have aspirations that never come to pass and the old have reminiscences of what never happened,’ Bryant replied unhelpfully.
His treasured volumes amounted to little more than a hodgepodge of bookshop clearances and charity-shop rejects, yet he treated them as if they belonged in the great library at Alexandria.
Well , they do. All books belong in the Library at Alexandria.