My favorite description of a growing annoyance is secondhand speech, "the cellphone equivalent of secondhand smoke".
In keeping with its location in a former paper factory, the owners have opened a secondhand English-language bookstore in the back.
Another Country, the darling English-language secondhand bookshop, has a respectable number of queer titles, and also hosts the monthly Queerstories reading events.
It is the best place to indulge in a bookshop crawl – even the passageway under the station platforms is lined with secondhand book stalls – and the English-language Massolit bookshop, café and venue is a book-lover's dream.
Even the language he uses is weirdly secondhand: a bizarre mélange of Hemingwayesque action prose and romance-novel clichés that manages to feel faux macho and sickly sweet at the same time.
You could easily spend an entire afternoon browsing through Massolit Books & Café, the city's best English-language bookstore-cum-café, which sells secondhand books in Polish and English.
If your target language is obscure, search on eBay for secondhand materials.
In his earlier books, Dalrymple accomplished this feat by tracking down the memoirs and chronicles of writers in Urdu and Persian — the court language of India — retrieved from the cellars and back rooms of secondhand booksellers.
Language was also amended so as not to suggest all excess secondhand clothing is shredded.
* All smoke is secondhand.
