Member priamel

I'm presently engaged in disposing of books, so a certain amount of disorder will be observed.

'In everything, I want to reach
To the very essence.
In work, in searching for the path,
In troubles of the heart.

To the essence of days gone by,

To their causes,

To foundations, to roots,
To the core...'

Like a character out of George Gissing, I sit by my fireplace in South London surrounded by rather too many books. A suspicious number of them are in foreign (and in the worst cases, dead foreign) languages.