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“There were all types of things in here, books on typography, epigraphy, philosophy, political ideologies. Books like Fox’s Book of Martyrs, The Twelve Caesars, Tacitus lectures and letters to Brutus. Pericles’ Idea State of Democracy, Thucydides The Athenian General—a narrative which would give you the chills…There were novels by Gogol and Balzac, Maupassant, Hugo and Dickens. I usually opened up some book to the middle, read a few pages and if I liked it went back to the beginning…I was looking for the part of my education that I never got. ..The books weren't arranged in any particular order or subject matter. Rousseau's Social Contract was next to Temptation of St. Anthony, and Ovid's Metamorphoses, the scary horror tale, was next to the autobiography of Davy Crockett. Endless rows of books...I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something in order to do that…A lot of these books were too big to read, like giant shoes fitted for large-footed people. I read the poetry books, mostly. Byron and Shelley and Longfellow and Poe. I memorized Poe's poem "The Bells" and strummed it to a melody on my guitar…The books make the room vibrate in a nauseating and forceful way.”

— Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One

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