In which a tenuous metaphorical link is advanced to announce a newly mounted architectural feature.

No doubt a qualified alienist would comment on the fact that my bookselling operation is drawn in large part to obscure controversial pamphlets, religious tracts and amateur versifiers — and that I have chosen to set up shop in a space of similarly forbiddng opacity. Even with the nifty new shop sign mounted beside the door, I worry a bit that my store-front is the architectural equivalent of Historical Collections in Relation to the Church of Christ, and to the Rise and Progress of the Benevolent Institutions in the United States and Other Countries (Pittsburgh 1844).