The Magic Mountain in the Bookshop

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

"In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius." - Thomas Mann

 

How To Be Invisible in the Bookshop

How To Be Invisible by Kate Bush

"I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head." - Kate Bush

 

Psychopath Test in the Bookshop

Old Margate by Michael David Mirams

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." - Oscar Wilde

"If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows." - Plato, Phaedrus