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CUSTOMER (seriously): Your window display’s not very friendly. It’s got stuff on ghosts, and haunted houses and poltergeists and everything. Are you trying to scare your customers away?
BOOKSELLER: ... No, sir. It’s Hallowe’en.

BOY (picks up a copy of Charlotte’s Web and holds it up to show his sister): What’s this about?
GIRL: It’s about a wimpy pig, and a spider called Charlotte who spins a web of lies and deceit.
BOOKSELLER: ...

(A mother and her little boy come into the bookshop)
LITTLE BOY (looking around, astounded): Mummy … have we gone back
in time?!

Long live bookshops, their booksellers, and every single one of their
customers.