Topical Guide 793
Mark Dorset
Books: “the tiny leather-bound volume of Persian poems”
At Home with the Glynns, Preface:
The first time I climbed into their room, I didn’t notice the way they’d decorated it, though I felt its effect, as I was meant to. I didn’t appreciate the fact that everything in the room, from all that gauze down to the tiny leather-bound volume of Persian poems and the moonlight, was for me, to attract me, to seduce me.
Perhaps this was the model for “the tiny leather-bound volume of Persian poems” in Margot and Martha’s bedroom (note that I am not suggesting that it was the volume, only that it might have been the model for the volume):
See also:
Books, Real and Fictional TG 99; Books: Covers TG 156; Books: Care of (How to Open) TG 586; Ancient Myths for Modern Youth TG 649; The Films of Gregory Tschudin TG 705, TG 736, TG 776; Making Your Self . . . and Dinner TG 777
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