The real Berkeley. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The silence is so intense that one’s own thoughts feel like noise. The Delhi Walla is at the Berkeley Books of Paris, one of the best secondhand English language bookstores in the French capital. Berkeley is a minute-long walk away from San Francisco, another absorbing English-language secondhand bookstore. The two landmarks are near the historic Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe in the heart of Paris. Both shops are dangerous—you could spend an entire day in either of them buying scores of books you never thought existed but on spotting them you realized you have been looking for them all your life. But it’s Berkeley with its cool balmy lights, old typewriters and a great reading