"I have a large collection of rare books as I buy anything published in English that I can get my hands -- mostly at auctions. The majority of great material is in French, and often antiquated French, so I'm still working on improving my language skills enough to get to some of those. I have great friends who interpret for me, though! And the internet has made this so much easier. When I first started this research nearly 20 years ago, it was much harder and much slower. Now I can be in touch with anyone in the world in a matter of minutes."

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