Holland House Library Suffers Damage 1940 London England
(copyright Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis - VPM)

This picture is a postcard  I found in the Galerie de la Reine in Brussels. There is a lovely bookshop, which sells all sorts of Art books. It is one of my favourite places in Brussels and whenever I can, I have a good and interested look at the books. I fell over this picture more or less when I left and it mesmerized me immediately.  The tranquility with which the three gentlemen are looking at the books, amid all this destruction, is amazing. As if nothing would have happened - they look very interested at books, unexited and calm. Even if the ceiling does not exist any longer.
This is class indeed.