“Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.”
~ from W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz
It is said that we should be eternally grateful to the Stourbridge book fair, as it was there that Sir Isaac Newton purchased a book that altered the course of his life and of humanity.
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