drunk on research, exhilarated by arcane details

“I knew books to be objects that loved to cluster and form disordered piles, but…”

“Die Bücher, die wie auf unserem ersten Bücherregal als Erwachsene stehen haben,…”

“..the ceiling is just a deep, dusty dome, like the inside of a skull. (Both are…”

“Bruno was a musician with the temperament of an anarchist and the breath of a b…”