Books I've actually finished lately: 127

[S]pecialists possess the tremendous stupidity of the force of gravity.

- Friedrich Nietzsche (according to Geoff Dyer)

(Audio)Books I've actually finished lately: 126

The nostrils of the poet

The cinnamon has, unfortunately, no smell at all, but to the nostrils of the poet.

- The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, on Robert Percival's An Account of the Island of Ceylon (etc.)