"Libraries are places where you go to invent and reinvent yourself, or maybe just to use the toilet, if they have toilet facilities, and to find out how other people have reinvented themselves, and what they've written on the walls, and the desks, and in the books; they're a wonderful hiding place, but also a way back out into the world."
-from Ian Sansom's P.S. to The Delegates' Choice (London: Harper Perennial, 2008) 18.
