TAILIEUCHUNG - Through The Magic Door (dodo Press) By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

As I approached it a combat ever raged betwixt the hunger of a youthful body and that of an inquiring and omnivorous mind. Five times out of six the animal won. But when the mental prevailed, then there was an entrancing five minutes’ digging among out-of-date almanacs, volumes of Scotch theology, and tables | Through the Magic Door Sir Arthur Conan Doyle DODO I WI PRESS Through the Magic Door I. I care not how humble your bookshelf may be nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you shut off with it all the cares of the outer world plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble silent comrades waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland. Surely there would be something eerie about a line of books were it not that familiarity has deadened our sense of it. Each is a mummified soul embalmed in cere-cloth and natron of leather and printer s ink. Each cover of a true book enfolds the concentrated essence of a man. The personalities of the writers have faded into the thinnest shadows as their bodies into impalpable dust yet here are their very spirits at your command. It is our familiarity also which has lessened our perception of the miraculous good fortune which we enjoy. Let us suppose that we were suddenly to learn that Shakespeare had returned to earth and that he would favour any of us with an hour of his wit and his fancy. How eagerly we would seek him out And yet we have him the very best of him at our elbows from week to week and hardly trouble ourselves to put out our hands to beckon him down. No matter what mood a man may be in when once he has passed through the magic door he can summon the world s greatest to sympathize with him in it. If he be thoughtful here are the kings of thought. If he be dreamy here are the masters of fancy. Or is it amusement that he lacks He can signal to any one of the world s great story-tellers and out comes the dead man and holds him enthralled by the hour. The dead are such

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