"For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner ... let him be struck with palsy, & all his members blasted. ... Let the bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, & when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever."
-Anathema in a medieval manuscript from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona
This is the opening to the book, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much.
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