When books have all seized up like the books in graveyards And reading and even speaking have been replaced
Louis MacNeice
"There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book."
Evelyn Waugh
A young British boy sits reading outside the ruins of a bookshop that suffered Luftwaffe bomb damage during the Blitz. London, 8 October 1940
City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave. San Francisco