“Those who do not read will have lived only one life at the age of 70: their own. The reader will have lived 5000 years: there was when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired the infinite ... because reading is a backward immortality "
— Paul Holdengraber (@holdengraber) August 31, 2022
~ Umberto Eco https://t.co/W7bz5MQruA
"Carpe Librum (Maastricht)", 48”x36”, oil on Belgian linen, 2021
Collection of Dani Durkin and Dave Lowther, Brentwood, California