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To coincide with the phased re-opening of our wonderful Reading Rooms at the @britishlibrary this week, we've been dipping into our very own shelf-sized version - 'Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities', filled with an evocative and thought-provoking extract for each day!
23/07 'Some More of this Trifle?'
"The great evil of the advanced state of society in which we live, is the moderate enjoyments are too little valued, and things only of the highest relish will please our pampered and vitiated appetites. Amusement has changed into dissipation..
Our wonderful @britishlibrary Reading Rooms began their phased re-opening yesterday, so we're celebrating with extracts from our very own 'Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities' by Ian Sansom.
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Our wonderful #ReadingRooms have begun their phased re-opening today! If you're missing them like we are, our title 'Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities' is the perfect remedy - 365 extracts taken straight from the @britishlibrary archives.
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Just one more day until the @britishlibrary begins its phased re-opening of the #ReadingRooms and we couldn't be more excited - so we're sharing passages from our very own 'Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities', 365 extracts pulled straight from the brilliant BL archives;
20/07: "It is not an easy goal to attain, as the crowd of aspirants dream, nor is the reward luxurious when it is attained. A garland, usually fading and not immortal, has to be run for, not without dust and heat."
Andrew Yang, 'How to Fail In Literature: A Lecture' (1890)...
To celebrate the first-phase of the @britishlibrary's re-opening of the Reading Rooms this week, we're dipping into our own 'Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities' to provide a thought-provoking extract from July!
What quote does today's date bring?
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16/07
'The Pigmentation of Fact'
"Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact."
Djuna Barnes, 'Nightwood' (1936)
Shelf-mark: YA.1990.a.2323
'Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities' is a playful and provocative collection of 365 extracts sourced from the British Library’s collections, selected to challenge and inform the reader, each accompanied by the unique shelfmark number of the source publication.
And since it's #ReadingTogether day, why not look through our fantastic books about books, and celebrate the wonderful thing that is the written word! 📚📚📚
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