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Truly novel behaviour

The books and the literary festival are nearly as interesting as the local characters in Hay-on-Wye

THE TROUBLE with philosophers is that they never agree about anything. Which is particularly irritating when you want to pinch one of their ideas for the introduction to an article.

Take the subject of books. If you believe Cicero, “a room without books is like a body without a soul”. On the other hand, Voltaire takes a different tack. “The multitude of books is making us ignorant,” he said, presumably foretelling the days when chick-lit and footballers’ biographies would lead the bestseller charts.

Voltaire, therefore, might not be too smitten with Hay-on-Wye, which has 39 bookshops and a population of just 1,500. Second-hand and antiquarian books are Hay’s key tourist attraction and people descend on the town each weekend to find rare works by just
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