Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world — the brains of men. —Roger Mifflin, “The Haunted Bookshop” by Christopher MorleyWhereas Mifflin considered that a good thing, there are people who take the analogy literally and are threatened by books with brains.
Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world — the brains of men. —Roger Mifflin, “The Haunted Bookshop” by Christopher MorleyWhereas Mifflin considered that a good thing, there are people who take the analogy literally and are threatened by books with brains.