16 May 2008

NY Times: a mirror of the everyman's concerns

D7, Thursday may 15, from 'A 30,000 Volume Window on the World':

'For the last seven years, I've lived in an old stone presbytery in France, south of the Loire Valley, in a village of fewer than 10 houses. I chose this place because next to the 15th-century house itself was a barn, partly torn down centuries ago, large enough to accomodate my library of some 30,000 books, assembled over six itinerant decades.'

Life shouldn't be so rough!