eBookworm

Ephemera on reading, literature, libraries and librarians, with frequent digressions.

[ebookworm]

I had a coffee-pot, a sauce-pan for eggs, and one for potatoes, and a frying-pan for sausages and bacon — such was the simple apparatus of my comfort. One cannot always be magnificent, but simplicity is always a possible alternative. For the rest I laid in an eighteen-gallon cask of beer on credit.

H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon

[scificovers]

[ebookworm]

So utterly at variance is destiny with all the little plans of men.

H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon

[wordsnquotes]

I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.

J.D. Salinger, A Boy in France

[ebookworm]

"Here's a remarkable book! What a wonderful book!" he was exclaiming. These ejaculations brought to my mind the fact that my uncle was liable to occasional fits of bibliomania; but no old book had any value in his eyes unless it had the virtue of being nowhere else to be found, or, at any rate, of being illegible.

Jules Verne, A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

[internationalemeteorologie]

[caffeinegalore]

Domingo de relax by mike828 - Miguel Duran on Flickr.

[amandum]

[psychos-r-us-deactivated2019030]

[ebookworm]

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

[pintoras]

Gwen John (Welsh, 1876 - 1939): Dorelia by lamplight, at Toulouse (1903-1904) (via Sotheby’s)

[theseboobsareolderthanyou]

Burlesque of the Rubicon

[yesterdaysprint]

[ebookworm]

when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

[bodleianlibs]

If anyone needs us we’ll be over here dropping the mic.

[ebookworm]

in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

[wecanthavethat]

I think that libraries are prime areas for poltergeists.

overheard in the library (via wecanthavethat)