Book: The club Dumas, or Shadow Richelieu

Even in books of the same edition there are discrepancies... In truth, it is simply impossible to find two completely identical copies, because already at the moment of birth some small differences arise. Then each volume begins to live its own life; pages disappear, are added, replaced, bindings are made... Years pass, and two books printed by the same press are no longer very similar to each other.

A hundred years will pass,” he muttered, squinting his eye and looking at one of the pages in the light, “and almost everything that we see in bookstores today will disappear. But these volumes, printed two hundred or even five hundred years ago, will remain safe and sound... After all, today we have the same books as our world itself, which we deserve... Right, Pablo? - Shitty books on crappy paper.

In Prado there is one picture... I Remember Corso? Men armed with knives, trying to stand against the horsemen, who cut them with swords. I always imagined that fallen angel, when he rebelled, had the same eyes, the same lost look, like those poor knives. The courage of despair.

Movie - for many, the collective thing, the generous, the children clap their hands, when there is a 007. Cinema makes people better; movies can be watched together and discussed. But your books are selfish. And loners. Some even read it. And you can't open it, they are old. Who are interested in only books that don't need anybody - that's what scares me.

Every person looks for as long as he survived, and how many read it. Look at yourself.

As for me, I only know that I know nothing. And when we want to know, looking in books, because books are not able to forget.

So much information - books, film, television, so many possible levels of reading, and here is the result: it is impossible to set that before you - the original or a copy; you cannot understand when a set of mirrors returns a real image, when distorted, and when something between the others and what, in fact, was the intention of the author.

Who is only interested in the book, to need no one, that's what scares me.

We are never left alone with a book, isn't it? Each page reminds us any day and helps to revive the feelings that filled it. Happy hours are marked with chalk, sad - coal...

Now I know that from darkness comes light.

Life is like a game. And the books as a mirror of life.

Know that he [Dumas] said to those who talked like he was raping History?.. "I raped her, true. But I'm doing her charming kids".

Man does not steal, he conquers, liked to say Dumas. - Every conquered province, he adds to the Empire: imposes her own laws, inhabits the themes and characters, is spreading its influence there...

For literature the time - like ships storm, and the Lord only saves those whom he loves; try to call other books with characters who, like d'artagnan and his comrades, unharmed through the years. Except that Sherlock Holmes Conan Doyle...