“Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels”

[Richard Roman]

Shakespeare and Company: the bookshop where you could read in bed

George Whitman ran his bookshop in the heart of Paris as a haven for poets and dreamers.

George Whitman, of Shakespeare and Company, 37 Rue de la Bûcherie, that remarkable bookshop in the shadow of Notre-Dame de Paris, has died at the age of 98, and idealism has taken another knock. He didn’t live to see the fulfilment of his hope that democracy would supplant plutocracy and the dominance of the military-industrial complex in his native United States, or the realisation of the future expressed by Tennyson in lines from Locksley Hall that he liked to quote:

Till the war-drum throbb’d no longer, and the battle-flags were furl’d

In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8958659/Shakespeare-and-Co...

[Marcella Caprario]

A sad loss.  Thanks for posting this.  Shakespeare and Co is a special place - one of my fav spots in the world!

[Richard Roman]

I would love to open up such a bookshop here in Changchun!

[Marcella Caprario]

Richard, that would be amazing!