“When Providence throws a good book in my way, I bow to its decree and purchase it as an act of piety, if it is reasonably or unreasonably cheap. I adopt a certain number of books every year, out of a love for the foundlings and stray children of other people’s brains that nobody seems to care for.”
from The Poet at the Breakfast Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Ha! I have the same attitude as this gentleman. Books are to be taken care of!
Side note: that library/bookstore looks like a great place to set up a desk and write in a frenzy (especially for NaNoWriMo). I like a messy place to write!
When I worked at a school library, I actually had to throw away books on a regular basis! They were pretty boring books, but still. It hurt.
I believe that is Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, so they might kick you out if you tried to park yourself there for a whole 50,000 words!
Ohhh… I love this. “out of a love for the foundlings and stray children of other people’s brains that nobody seems to care for,” this, especially.
Like taking home a unfledged baby bird, but with a better likely outcome!