"In 1936, George Orwell published a little essay entitled Bookshop Memories. In it, he recalled his time as an assistant in a second-hand bookshop, a time that was happy only when viewed through the soft-focus lens of nostalgia. Irony might be defined as disgust recalled in tranquillity, and Orwell’s essay is nothing if not full of irony. He was glad to have had the experience, no doubt, but more glad that it was over."
From: Of Bibliophilia and Biblioclasm by Theodore Dalyrmple
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/28194/sec_id/28194
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