I liked book selling a lot, more than I liked teaching, even though I had the ideal teaching job at the ideal school. Teaching simply ceased to engage me, whereas rare book dealing interested me more and more.
…but knowing as we do that some book buyers resent too much organization, we leave a couple of long walls, containing maybe 120 000 books, unsorted…
Jag läste denna för några månader sedan. Bitvis intressant och rakt igenom mycket trevlig, även om den kanske inte kommer att leva i mitt minne till min döds dagar.