This resentment ... had to do with feeling shut out. A library, I used to feel, was like a cocktail party with everybody standing with their back to me; I could not find a way in.
Alan Bennett on libraries of a lifetime
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8696077/Alan-Bennett-on-libraries-of-a-lifetime.html
The periodic, eclectic and sometimes eccentric, cerebral meanderings of an aspirant polymath.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
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