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Debashis Dey:
If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?
Debashis Dey
No offence to Hogwarts (too many stairs), Middle-earth (too much walking), or Narnia (too many responsibilities for kids in school uniforms), I would avoid the obvious choices if I could travel to any fictional book world.
Rather, I would stealthily enter Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind—the eerie maze of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in post-war Barcelona.
I would live the life of a literary thief there. Not the story-thieving kind, but the one who whispers forgotten names into candlelight and frees unread souls from dusty shelves. I would walk the narrow alleys gathering sentences like trinkets and brewing tea with Fermin Romero de Torres (who undoubtedly brews it with more drama than is necessary).
I wouldn't defeat evil, save the world, or experience dramatic love. I would simply read. Indefinitely. And perhaps tuck a few of my own annotated pages into the spine of a misplaced novel—so that some other lost soul might come across them and be pleased.
After all, what could be more magical than having someone you've never met remember you?
Rather, I would stealthily enter Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind—the eerie maze of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in post-war Barcelona.
I would live the life of a literary thief there. Not the story-thieving kind, but the one who whispers forgotten names into candlelight and frees unread souls from dusty shelves. I would walk the narrow alleys gathering sentences like trinkets and brewing tea with Fermin Romero de Torres (who undoubtedly brews it with more drama than is necessary).
I wouldn't defeat evil, save the world, or experience dramatic love. I would simply read. Indefinitely. And perhaps tuck a few of my own annotated pages into the spine of a misplaced novel—so that some other lost soul might come across them and be pleased.
After all, what could be more magical than having someone you've never met remember you?
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