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.

shut from every shore

Sometimes with secure delight / The upland hamlets will invite,