“ Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning … and you came for an old book. ”
America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.
~ Robin Sloan
It was a fungal party hellscape.
Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.
After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this:A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.
