What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find…

What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn’t have that smell.

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Interview in Stop Smiling magazine, June 29, 2007

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I hear my father-in-law’s response…”Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!” Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops? - View Quote Details on I hear my father-in-law’s response…”Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would…
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Yay, Old’uns’ Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an’ made miracles ord’nary, but it din’t master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o’ humans, yay, a hunger for more. - View Quote Details on Yay, Old’uns’ Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an’ made miracles…
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity’s powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction. - View Quote Details on Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity’s powers…