De bloem mei en de vlinder

In the world of Samuel Quinine, diligent owner-manager of Yifitsin Print Bookshop, life is research, and research is life. Today he is considering the heritage of the Flemish poet, Septimal Spanswick, who wrote the prose poem 'De bloem mei en de vlinder'. Having published this in 1885, he went on a quest around the world collecting handwritten manuscripts by poets with alliterative names. The resulting Hypertext volume, ‘The Orb is my Oyster, the Globe my Google’ predated the Internet by a century. Samuel Quinine adds this information to his ‘Notes for Today’ and displays it in the shop window.  Meanwhile , his grandson, Kolya, is in the rear of the shop, playing with a silver statue of the Magic Dragon.