albae gallinae filius [translation]

Finished reading Number9Dream for the book club meeting yesterday, but had to share this passage:

I emerge into a library-study with the highest book-population density I have ever seen in my life. Book walls, book towers, book avenues, book sidestreets. Book spillages, book rubble. Paperback books, hardcover books, atlases, manuals, almanacs. Nine lifetimes of books. Enough boks to build an igloo to hide in, and then to hide the igloo. The room is sentient with books. Mirrors double and cube the books. A Great Wall of China quantity of books. Enough books to make me wonder if I am a book too.

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