Trunks Quotes

“Portability also explains why many old chests and trunks had domed lids- to throw off water during travel. The great drawback of trunks, of course, is that everything has to be lifted at to get things at the bottom. It took a remarkably long time- till the 1600s- before it occurred to anyone to put drawers in and thus convert trunks into chests of drawers.”
― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

“Nine-tenths of all artistic creation derives its basic energy from the engine of repression and sublimation, and well beyond the strict Freudian definition of those terms.

John Fowles attended new College in Oxford. You might like to see my collection of Oxford trees at Rob's Bookshop.”
― John Fowles