The Dark Invader in the Bookshop

The Dark Invader by Captain Von Rintelen

"Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision." - Edmund Blunden

 

The Dark Invader in the Bookshop and Other Cerise Penguins

The Dark Invader by Franz von Rintelen

"hominem unius libri timeo" - Latin proverb

 "Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home." - Jorge Luis Borges