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EXQUISITE NOTHING MORE THAN A BOOK

Valeria Claw, linocut for the title of "Mice" by Lev Tolstoy. Milan, 1990.

Nobleman: Now this is what I call workmanship. There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran that you are scribbling.

SAINT JOAN, Scene IV
George Bernard Shaw, 1924

Franco Dugo, "Temporale", acquaforte.