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Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Bookstore Creeps

From the cover of Robert Kyle’s The Crooked City

Just as a book gives an aspiring interlocutor a better opening than an inscrutable mobile device—“Are you a student?” “What are you reading?” “Is that a novel of old Paris?” (granted this last was an isolated situation)—so, too, does the tangible presence of large numbers of books embolden a certain subset.

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