She coughed as she exhaled. Sixties weed had been nowhere near this strong.
I found that a new oath holds pretty well; but that when it is become old and frayed out and damaged by a dozen annual retyings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.
From the bibliomaniac's immense and curious library to the modern antiquary with his cabinet of never-to-be-described oddities to the impossible science of bibliography to the cacoethes scribendi to the Helluo Librorum or great devourer of books, whether in the college or the circulating library, the compulsion to pathologize book collection, authorship and reading had itself become endemic – a kind of itch whose compulsive reiteration suggested an ironic echo of the very afflictions these critics set themselves against ….
immense and curious library
modern antiquary
cabinet of never-to-be-described oddities
great devourer of books,
itch
She was not taken aback to find he lived in a ramshackle log hut among the trees.
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