(via ajamars)
i wonder what was goin’ on in 1380. My first guess is the hundred years war.
i never thought i’d say this, but in the battle of corporate bookstores, borders totally has my heart. suck it, b & n.
when i’m eventually an english or history professor, these quotes shall go on my syllabus:
“All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”
“In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.”
oh double swoon.