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Source Notes for the Library by Stuart Kells (Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2017) Source Notes for The Library by Stuart Kells (Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2017) p. 6. ‘My company is gone, so that now I hope to enjoy my selfe and books againe, which are the true pleasures of my life, all else is but vanity and noyse.’: Peter Beal, ‘“My Books are the Great Joy of My Life”. Sir William Boothby, Seventeenth-Century Bibliophile’, in Nicholas Barker (ed.), The Pleasures of Bibliophily, (London & New Castle: British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2003), p. 285. p. 6. ‘the existence within his dwelling-place of any book not of his own special kind, would impart to him the sort of feeling of uneasy horror which a bee is said to feel when an earwig comes into its cell’: John Hill Burton, The Book-Hunter etc, (Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1885), p. 21. p. 8. ‘menial and dismal’: Jorge Luis Borges, ‘Autobiographical Essay’, in The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969, (London: Picador, 1973), p. 153. p. 8. ‘filled with tears’: Jorge Luis Borges, ‘Autobiographical Essay’, in The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969, (London: Picador, 1973), p. 153. p. 8. ‘On that miraculous day, she looked up from reading C. S. Lewis, noticing he had begun to cry. In perfect speech, he told her, “I’m crying because I understand”.’: Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, ‘Borges and $: The parable of the literary master and the coin’, Longreads, June 2016. p. 8: ‘a nightmare version or magnification’: Jorge Luis Borges, ‘Autobiographical Essay’, in The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969, (London: Picador, 1973), p. 154. p. 9. ‘the treatise the Venerable Bede might have written (and never wrote) on Saxon mythology’: Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel, (Boston: David R. Godine, 2000), p. 23. p. 10. ‘“Oh Georgie,” Señora Borges said, “I don’t know why you waste your time with Anglo-Saxon instead of studying something useful like Latin or Greek!”’: Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, (London: Flamingo, 1997), p. 16. p. 13. ‘at once a map, a long narrative poem, and the foundation of an Aboriginal’s religious and traditional life…It is secret and there are penalties for those who transgress’: Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 411. p. 14. ‘like opening a door in a secret palace and entering a labyrinth of countless corridors and passages’: Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 411. 1 p. 14. ‘a treasure trove of poetry’: Barry Hill, quoted in ‘Strehlow: A “Rough and Passionate” Journey Through the Centre. Kieran Finnane talks with biographer Barry Hill’, Alice Springs News, 25 September 2002. p. 14. ‘wildly eccentric’: Bruce Chatwin, letter to Anne-Marie Mykyta, 26 November 1984. p. 14. ‘a dense, often bewilderingly literary work’: Philip Jones, ‘Strehlow, Theodor George Henry (Ted) (1908–1978)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University; published first in hard copy 2002; accessed online May 2017. p. 14. ‘Let me say hello to the first man in the world who’s read it’: Kath Strehlow, quoted in Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 409. p. 15. ‘the nature of human restlessness’: Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987), p. 161. p. 15. ‘perhaps the only book in the world—the only real attempt since the Poetics of Aristotle, to define what song (and with song all language) is’: Bruce Chatwin, letter to Anne-Marie Mykyta, 26 November 1984. p. 15. ‘I feel I’m reading Heidegger or Wittgenstein’: Bruce Chatwin, letter to Kath Strehlow, August 1983. p. 15. ‘twentieth-century lynchpin: you only have to look at the work of Lévi-Strauss to realise this’: Bruce Chatwin, letter to Kath Strehlow, 24 August 1983. p. 15. ‘The pyramids are little mud pies in comparison’: Bruce Chatwin, quoted in Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 411. p. 16. ‘Bruce would wander around where he wanted. When sales went on view, there would be thirty-five lots missing and things were misnumbered and dirty’: Marcus Linell, quoted in Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 87. p. 16. ‘live bait’: Kenelm Digby-Jones, quoted in Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 119. p. 16. ‘Many of the skills Borges acquired through cataloguing books for the Miguel Cané municipal library, Bruce picked up in Antiquities’: Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 90. p. 16. ‘of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fish, rooms, instruments, heavenly bodies, horses and people’: Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Poems, Vol. 2, (London: Penguin Books, 2000), p. 143. p. 17. ‘celebrated for neither their prose nor their charm’: Rory Stewart, ‘Walking with Chatwin’, The New York Review of Books, 25 June 2012. 2 p. 17. ‘strode into the realm of literary respectability’: Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 487. p. 17. ‘I can’t say I believe the songlines literally,… Maybe any third-year anthropology student could shoot it to bits, but what’s wonderful is the passion with which Bruce approaches it’: Colin Thubron, quoted in Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 487. p. 17. ‘Things can never again be quite the same as they were ante-B.C.’: Shirley Hazzard, letter to Bruce Chatwin, 23 November 1988. p. 17. ‘Little Englanderism [and] a literary establishment that loves to reward poems to goldfish and novels about the tepid lusts of women librarians’: Andrew Harvey, ‘Footprints of the Ancestors’, The New York Times, 2 August 1987. p. 18. ‘superficially exquisite and tasteful like a Mont Blanc pen, and as unrelated to everyday life’: Ruth Brown, ‘The songlines and the empire that never happened’, Kunapipi, 13:3, 1991, p. 6. p. 18. ‘If there is one person more damaging to the position of the Aboriginal Australian than the racist, it is the person who idealises them and romanticises them’: Stewart Harris, Itʼs coming yet: An Aboriginal treaty within Australia between Australians, (Aboriginal Treaty Committee, 1979), p. 74. p. 19. ‘pulped book on songlines’: Bruce Chatwin, letter to Murray Bail, London, 3 August 1983, in Elizabeth Chatwin & Nicholas Shakespeare (eds.), Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin, (London: Jonathan Cape, 2010), p. 369. p. 20. That’s a fake. That’s a fake. That’s a fake’: David Ellis-Jones, quoted in Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin. (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 101. p. 20. ‘flapping between her breasts’: Bruce Chatwin, “The Estate of Maximilian Tod”, in Anatomy of Restlessness, (New York: Viking, 1996), p. 56. p. 20. ‘We thought he was a bit of a fake.’: Mrs Tim Clarke, quoted in Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin, (London: Harvill Press in assoc. with Jonathan Cape, 1999), p. 101. pp. 20-21. ‘An Aboriginal subincision knife,’ ‘It’s a wonderful colour...of chartreuse’: Susannah Clapp, With Chatwin: Portrait of a writer, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1997), p. 227. p. 22. ‘what proof have we that inorganic objects can feel no pain?...and therefore never yet perceived?’: Elias Canetti, Auto Da Fé, (New York: Random House, 2011), p. 67. p. 22. ‘into thine hands as Simeon the Just took the Child Jesus into his arms to carry him and kiss him’: John Willis Clark, The Care of Books, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901), p. 77. p. 23. ‘So to piper and Duck Lane, and there kissed bookseller’s wife and bought Legend.’: Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 14, (New York: G. E. Croscup, 1903), p. 372. 3 p. 23. ‘the pagans near the gentlemen’s seats, the Christians near the ladies’: Apollinaris Sidonius, Epistolae, II, 9.4, quoted in Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading, (London: Flamingo, 1997), p. 192. p. 23. ‘unless they happen to be married’: William S. Dix, ‘On the Arrangement of Books,’ in College and Research Libraries, 25 (March 1964), p. 86. p. 23. ‘Never think of marriage...begin to read until it vanishes.’: Isaac Gossett, quoted in “Some Caricatures of Book-collectors: an essay” in A. N. L. Munby, Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 8. p. 24. ‘a visit to at least one bookshop a day throughout the honeymoon is to be recommended’: A. N. L. Munby, “Floreat Bibliomania”, in Essays and Papers, (London: Scolar Press, 1977), p. 40. p. 24. ‘took her outside and made her comfortable, then went back to finish the shop’: ‘Geoffrey Keynes’, in The Book Collector, Vol. 31, No. 4, Winter 1982, p. 425. p. 24. ‘Oh, Geoffrey,’ Lydia said, ‘you look so sexy.’ ‘What can she have meant?’: ‘Geoffrey Keynes’, in The Book Collector, Vol. 31, No. 4, Winter 1982, p. 425. p. 24. ‘When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes’: Desiderius Erasmus, letter to Jacob Batt, 12 April 1500; in Collected Works of Erasmus, Vol. 1, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974), p. 252. p. 24. ‘she lost the use of her limbs by sitting indoors reading’: Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron and some of his contemporaries with recollections of the author ś life and of his visit to Italy, Vol. II, (London: Henry Colburn, 1828), p. 66. p. 25. ‘was so deeply plunged in an overweening desire for knowledge, so besotted with it, that he never had leisure to cut his hair, or pare his nails’: Michel de Montaigne, ‘Of the Education of Children’, quoted in Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania, (New York: Avenel Books, 1981), p.
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