DEAR EDITOR:
It was Erasmus who said,
”
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I
buy food and clothes.
”
DEAR EDITOR:
It was Erasmus who said, “When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.” We may have other human priorities, but the Wize Owl, Michelle Campbell’s magnificent new bookstore in Gilroy is a feast that can satisfy that insatiable appetite for books, and words, and knowledge, and all else the curious mind craves.
If you have an inkling of what John Keats meant when he said, “Give me books, fruit, French wine, and fine weather,” you understand that books enrich us as do all fine pursuits in life enrich us. Here in Gilroy, with the agricultural largess – our bounty of fruit and wine, and our incomparable weather, now now we have books, and there is a feast to be had here, a font of riches from which to drink.
In the new office and commercial complex at the corner of First Street and Santa Teresa, at 8060 Santa Teresa, #110, is The Wize Owl. Filled with children’s books, classic and contemporary fiction, travel literature, provocative non-fiction and tomes for every taste, The Wize Owl deserves our community’s support, but more vitally, we need the sustenance for mind and soul a bookstore provides. Samuel Johnson said, “The booksellers are generous, liberal-minded men.”
Amid the pizza joints and fast-food places, amid the ethnically diverse restaurants and traditional dining emporia, is the Wize Owl. Visit it soon, and as Jefferson Airplane implored, “Feed your head.”
Ted Brett, Gilroy
Submitted Monday, Feb. 10
