“A personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being in the world. Even how the books are arranged on the shelves deserves notice, even reflection. There is probably no such thing as complete chaos in such arrangements.”
-Jay Parini, “Other People’s Books”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
22 September 2006
DAVID YAMANE 