Dictionary
vellichor
n.The strange wistfulness of used bookstores — the sense of accumulated lives, of all the readers who came before, now gone.
Coined by John Koenig. From vellum + ichor (the ethereal fluid in the veins of the gods).
The strange wistfulness of used bookstores — the sense of accumulated lives, of all the readers who came before, now gone.
Coined by John Koenig. From vellum + ichor (the ethereal fluid in the veins of the gods).