Sometimes spent hours together great libraries Paris, catacombs depart — Washington Irving, Tales a Traveller

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Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature.

Washington Irving, Tales of a Traveller

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