Chapter 33 The disease called bibliophilia (2)

"Galene [Galene (130?-200?), Greek anatomist, physician and writer. His theories laid the foundations of European medicine.] confirmed this finding and recorded a case ("Case Manual ", Chapter XI, p. 318). The symptoms of the intellectual bowels exhibited in this case are very similar to those we find in appendicitis cases. Some of the gyri used by the brain for work are just as in the case of the alimentary canal. The so-called 'Layer IV' consists of some elongated groups of small units or nuclei emanating to the right corner of this plane, and these groups present a clear fan-like structure. Bibliophilia is the blockage of this fourth layer, so Damage to this fan-like structure no longer calms the brain. For this reason too, the continuity of thought is interrupted, just as the continuity of digestion is interrupted by appendicitis."

"Did your treatment work in the case of NM?" I asked. "Quietly cured," replied the doctor, "by hypnosis, I removed those hallucinations from his reason, relieved their perception of unreal objects, and freed them from the feeling of no corresponding external cause. This The patient recovered quickly and, although three months have passed since he was released from care, there has been no relapse." As a social class, booksellers generally discourage their customers from reading other booksellers' titles.Presumably, the reason may be that one does not want to encourage buyers to buy another seller's goods.My bookseller surpasses all other booksellers I have ever met in many virtues of mind and heart.He had developed a very scrupulous habit of destroying the bibliographies that came into his store, lest a few stray copies might fall into the hands of an ever-hunting bibliophile and divert his attention to others. on the hunting ground.Nothing could be more evident than that an overabundant bibliography has something to offer its victims. The author of "Will Shakespeare, a Comedy" has often confessed to me that it doesn't matter to him whether a bibliography is an old bibliography from twenty years ago-as long as he can find his favorite perusal on it. Books will do.I have often heard Mr. Hamlin, the manager of the theatre, say that he prefers old titles to new ones, and the reason for this is that he can find bargains in these old titles, whose legal terms have expired long ago.

Judge Methuen was a married man and thus had a good opportunity to study gender issues.He told me that bibliographies are always seen by bibliophile wives as the most pernicious temptation, which husbands should be able to throw away as well.I once, quite unwisely, raised this subject in the presence of Mrs. Methuen, a respectable lady who gave the opinion that there are many foolish ways of squandering money without resorting to bibliographical hints. .I'm curious to know if Captivity, if it was God's will that me and I were to walk the quiet lanes of New England life together, would she share that view; , will she keep the richness and sweetness of her youth forever?Would Fanchenette always have sympathy for the whims and whims of that restless and supremely loyal soul?So many years had passed since the soul had wandered in the Latin Quarter obsessed with her song that the memory of that song was now like the memory of a terrible echo.

Take away such meditations!Bring the candles, my good servant, and arrange them at my bedside; sweet and pleasant diversions await me, Here is a great book with which I shall talk kindly and intimately.They are messages from old friends: Methuen, Suslan, Libby, Owen, Hurt, Davy, Bell, Crawford, Bance, McClurg, Matthews, Francis, Barton, Scribner, Benjamin, and many other friends from every corner of Christendom.They deserve and will have my respect--not only that, but my warm attention.I seem to have once stepped into an old friend's shop, which was full of treasure, and patient digging would pay handsomely.Goodness, what a spendthrift I shall be tonight; pennies, shillings, taylors, marks, francs, dollars, saffrons.Shafrin, a gold coin used in the old days of England. ]—they do not look different to me.

How sweet it would be, then, when I counted all the treasures in this range, to have my dream shelves filled with riches for which I was ecstatic: So my study will be dedicated to Nidinodi's fantasy gods and demons, including unwritten chapters And a masterpiece that belongs to everyone.