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English: Shakespeare and Company, Paris, France. The owner left the Paris Wall Newspaper dated January 1st, 2004: Some people call me the Don Quixote of the Latin Quarter because my head is so far up in the clouds that I can imagine all of us are angels in paradise. And instead of beeing a bonafide bookseller I am more like a frustrated novelist. Store has rooms like chapters in a novel and the fact is Tolstoi and Doestoyevski are more real to me than my next door neighbors, and even stranger is the fact that even before I was born Dostoyevski wrote the story of my life in a book called The Idiot and ever since reading it I have been searching for the heroine, a girl called Nastasia Filipovna. One hundred years ago my bookstore was a wine shop hidden from the Seine by an annex of the Hotel Dieu hospital which has since been demolished & replaced by a garden. And further back in the Year 1600 our whole building was a monastery called la Maison du Mustier. In medieval times each monastery had a frère lampier whose duty was to light the lamps at nightfall. I have been doing this for fifty years, now it is my daughter's turn. G.W. (George Whitman, 12 December 1913 - 14 December 2011)
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