The Twenty Days of Turin
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- Author: Giorgio De Maria, Jeff VanderMeer, and Ramon Glazov
- ASIN: B01HDSU0QU
- ISBN: 1631492292
- Reference: https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B01HDSU0QU
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Highlights
Or rather they helped to furnish the illusion of a relationship with the outside world: a dismal cop-out nourished and centralized by a scornful power bent only on keeping people in their state of continuous isolation. The inventors of the Library knew their trade well!” — location: 769
The typical patron of the Library was a shy individual, ready to explore the limits of his own loneliness and to weigh others down with it. — location: 776
And so, a web of mutual espionage came together piece by piece—malicious and futile. You couldn’t leave the house anymore, take a tram, visit a public place, without sensing the leer of somebody who wanted you to believe he’d soaked up all your deepest secrets. — location: 783
“Motives in our own image and likeness,” said Giuffrida, — location: 1245
archaeologists digging around Volterra had discovered bas-reliefs revealing that the great poet Virgil had actually been an ostrich. The sculptures dated back to the Augustan period. The anonymous artist depicted the poet in various positions: standing upright with his long neck almost vertical and his tiny head and beak animated by two eyes that shone with intelligence; — location: 1282