'Every word they say chagrins us and we know not where to begin to set them right.'

'con men guessing at the dreams of the customers'

'Those, then, were Hans Castorp's favorite recordings.'

Carrying my usual bag, a bag of books, and a bag of groceries, I walked past a little boy. He asked his mother: 'Is that the mailman?'

'There are questions we could never get past, were it not that we are freed from them by nature.'

A previous reader has left a gray cut-out paper heart in the library's copy of the German Library volume of Kant's writings, starting at the page beginning the 'Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View'.

'a Shaolin scholar of some standing'

Sometimes I wish people would check out books that I want at the library, so that I could recall them over the internet and then not have to remember until the next time I go to the library that I want them. Not that having the books waiting at the front desk wouldn't be convenient, too.

If summer days were always like today then I would consider approving of summer. As it is there are too few days like today to make me consider approving of spring.