books.google.ca - Wandering through Paris's Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited him up for tea. Within weeks, he was living above the store, working for the proprietor, George Whitman,...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Time_Was_Soft_There.html?id=dTRPu3gQWXQC&q=living&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareTime Was Soft There