Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:46:17 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Books You Can Live Without
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Tamar Lindsay wrote:
> From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
> sjvn wrote:
>> As I find myself doing painful surgery on my library in preparation of
>> my move to a smaller house, I happened across this collection of essays
>> on how to cull one's library.
<snip>
>> rid of a book? No way. Every one is a brick keeping the building
>> standing. Books are my life. I leave and come back, and the books I find
>> there tell me I'm home."
<snip>
> Same here - books are the furniture for between my ears; and a lot are tools.
> The only things I'd get rid of are way outdated and useless, like a book of
> lists that's 20 years old.
> ===
>
> If only I had a perfect memory _and_ everyone would believe what I say I read
> somewhere, I could get rid of many books.  For some reason people tend to

Yeah, and these people who act like they know everything are *such* a trial to
those of us who actually do know everything.... <g> (AKICIF)
<snip>
  > =Tamar
> The plan: 1. win the lottery.  2. buy an empty library building with shelves intact.
> 3. sort my books.

The first apt my folks moved to, a few years after I left home (back when the
world was young), they wound up having to move again: the city tore the
building down, and built a library. Not sure why they tore it down.... When my
dad died, my mom contributed most of his books and papers to Temple U; before
they got to the books, there were over 10,000 items.

  mark, comes by it honestly
--
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His
way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the
rest of us ought to get it without even asking. - Will Rogers