"It is so easy to lose one's heart to a woman who is herself lost in books, so long as the fair maiden understands that what is to be found in the turning of a page can never hope to match up with those pleasures to be found in real life; turning romantic date to lover, lover to husband and husband to soul mate!
Reading as a source of learning, escapism or relaxation is of itself most rewarding, but what kind of woman would choose to sit alone with a library of musty old books, when nearby there is one whom she can sit alongside; even though he be shaped like sunken sack of spuds and is glued to football on the box while drinking canned ale, belching and farting liberally?" William Forde: July 21st, 2016.