2011-07-25
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quote 19:13:45
“ One knows that designers seldom read, but they don’t have much knowledge of Inca civilisation either or the Puritan settlement of New England and yet they seem to cope perfectly well reproducing them. An agglomeration of books as illustrating the character of their owner seems to defeat them. ”
Alan Bennett in a piece for the LRB: Baffled at a Bookcase.
