"My library was _ all libraries are _ a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren’t binding; and where illusion is comfortably real. To read, to think, to trace the words back to their origins real or presumed; to invent; to dare to imagine…. Transport is the business of books, the purpose of my world-without-end."
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