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88 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
An elderly professor of classical languages, Leonard Wood, was left paralyzed after being struck on the head by five volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica that fell from a shelf in his library; my friend Richard broke a leg when he tried to reach William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, which was so awkwardly placed he fell off his stepladder. Another of my friends in Buenos Aires caught TB in the basement of a public archive, and I even knew a dog from Chile that died of indigestion from swallowing the pages of The Brothers Karamazov one afternoon when rage got the better of him.
“There are two sorts, if I may explain: on the one hand, the collectors, whose aim is to amass rare editions: Horacio Quiroga’s magazine in Salto, not only the books written by Borges, but all his articles; editions by Colombo, Güiraldes’s editor, or the exquisite bindings signed by Bonet, even though they never even open them except to look at the pages, in the same way for example, that people contemplate a beautiful object, a rare piece. On the other, there are bibliophiles who are readers, who throughout their life have built up important libraries.”
"Εξακολουθούν να είναι φίλοι μου. Το καταφύγιό μου. Η σκιά μου το καλοκαίρι. Η προστασία μου από τους ανέμους. Τα βιβλία είναι το σπίτι μου."
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