The Benefit of Bad Organization

The benefit of having your books badly organized is that you stumble on gems like this, which I found on a shelf full of Arden Shakespeares:

Annoyed with the world, I took a large studio in Hampstead. Here I resolved to live in utter aloofness, until the world should approach me on its knees, whining its apologies.

--John Collier, "Night Youth Paris and the Moon," 299, 299-303,

Fancies and Goodnights (NYRB 2003)