Posted by joffre on 23/4/2008, 13:02:35, in reply to "Re: translations"
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: We have books in all rooms except for the bathroom and
: the kitchen. We talk about the books one of us wants
: to buy and usually the other agrees or accepts the
: choices. Many of our interests are complementary or
: overlap so that we can at least appreciate the other's
: obsessions.
Now, that's nice. I congratulate you.
: I have decided, though, to borrow more fiction from
: the library - fiction that I find interesting but
: don't need to see on my bookshelf. I
: am preparing to thin out the bookshelves right now of
: books I find no longer of interest.
I did a bit of consolidating recently. I took the collections of poems which I bought in college and have hardly looked at since and put them in a cabinet in my extra room. I'm still going to need more shelf space very soon, and I don't know where I'm going to put it. I like my stuff arranged as it is. I only get fiction from the library if it's out of print and I can't buy it. I seldom have enough curiosity to buy and read anything that hasn't had time to establish something of a reputation. There are some books in my shelves I'll probably never read again, but I don't want to take them out. I like having read them, like seeing them there. I sometimes get light critical works or other things from the library if I'm not sure I care about having them to keep, especially if they're expensive. I recently got that Understanding Robbe-Grillet book from the library, and I got Harold Bloom's book The American Religion there. I plan to have them get me a book on Hector Guimard soon and perhaps A.D. Nuttall's book Shakespeare the Thinker.
By the way, Shakespeare fans, I read Measure for Measure without any real pain last week. I had started The Winter's Tale but I had to give that up in the second scene. While I read MfM without any pain, I also read it without any great deal of interest or entertainment. I don't know what my problem is. The thing I like best in Shakespeare is the sort of character like Claudio in MfM who says, "Reason thus with life: if I do lose thee, I do lose a thing that none but fools would keep."
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