I loved this sculpture in front of the public library in Ladenburg since I first saw it.  It’s a reference to reading itself – whatever kind of books you like.

And while we are in Ladenburg (a small town in the southwest of Germany) have a look at this medieval tower,  I could happily see it standing in Ankh-Morpork, maybe the tower of the Unseen University before the vice-chancellors got eccentric and went for the Babylonian style of architecture (I am referring to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, of course).

This tower stands about 10 kilometres to the northeast in Weinheim.  It’s part of the local castle and since I was little I noticed its turrets and bay windows and dormer windows – and imagined myself a Disney princess when I was there.

And can’t you see the reference to Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea?

A Photo a Week Challenge: Literary Reference