bottom books

"i then began again to think about the bottom nature in people... slowly you can see it in them the nature and the mixtures in them... slowly the history of each one comes out of each one... i [buy and sell books] for myself and strangers, i do this for my own sake and for the sake of those who know i know it that they look like other ones, that they are separate and yet always repeated." - gertrude stein, "the gradual making of the making of americans"