No one stepping first time a room made books know instinctively behave — Alberto Manguel, Library Night

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No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed. One may be overcome by horror–at the cluster or the vastness, the stillness, the mocking reminder of everything one doesn't know, the surveillance–and some of that overwhelming feeling may cling on, even after the rituals and conventions are learned, the geography mapped, and the natives found friendly.

Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

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