"...though
books, as Milton says, may be the embalming of mighty spirits, they are
also the resurrection of rebellious, reactionary, fantastical, and
wicked spirits! in books dwell all the demons and all the angels of the
human mind. it is for this reason that a a bookshop -- especially a
second-hand bookshop / antiquarian - is an arsenal of explosives, an
armory of revolutions, an opium den of reaction.''
— John Cowper Powys
— John Cowper Powys