shut from every shore

Sometimes with secure delight / The upland hamlets will invite,

The illustrious bookstore has nothing for helping analphabets. The sales assistant looks like a pontificating doctor, and informs Édith that there is a difference between analphabet and illiterate: […] The two encyclopedias Édith and Gilles have at home do not make any distinction between illiterate and analphabet.

This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask.