A Classic Is The Term Given To

Futures Not Achieved Are Only Branches Of The Past: Dead Branches.

You Take Delight Not In A City's Seven Or Seventy Wonders, But In The Answer It Gives To A Question Of Yours.

How Well I Would Write If I Were Not Here!

What About Books? Well, Precisely Because You Have Denied It In Every Other Field, You Believe You May Still Grant Yourself Legitimately This Youthful Pleasure Of Expectation In A Carefully Circumscribed Area Like The Field Of Books, Where You Can Be Lucky Or Unlucky, But The Risk Of Disappointment Isn't Serious.

The City, However, Does Not Tell Its Past, But Contains It Like The Lines Of A Hand