Printers can read as if through a mirror. It is their trade. Their fingers are nimble and their eye keen. But examine any book and you will see that some characters are upside down, some transposed.
“I am clever enough to know that I am clever.”
― Titus Groan
― Titus Groan
“Book characters were dangerously attractive in the safest way. You didn’t even know what they looked like, but you knew you liked it.”
― Long Live Evil
― Long Live Evil
“Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.”
― Titus Groan
― Titus Groan
“I could see Mike and James sitting side by side, both of them gazing wordlessly into space. From what I could judge, they shared obsessions that were similar but not identical, a situation which made communion between them unworkable for the present.”
― The Forensic Records Society
― The Forensic Records Society
“It is my cape of good hope, and if it isn't I will probably bite your nose off”
― Mr Pye
― Mr Pye
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