I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed {in Latin} to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books.
( Connie Willis )
[ The Winds of Marble Arch and ]
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