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What does it matter which books were spoken of?” “It matters a great deal, because here we are trying to understand what has happened among men who live among books, with books, from books, and so their words on books are also important.”
In the place of his head he has a bookcase.
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves.
I began writing in March of 1978, prodded by a seminal idea: I felt like poisoning a monk.
