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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (71825)	8/6/2003 1:35:57 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I also have a computer list, but in addition I do have a shelf -- actually four shelves -- of books waiting to be read. Plus many books shelved in their usual places which I intend to read. (For example, about a year ago I got a good deal on the Great Books of the Western World series. 60 volumes, only about four of which I have no interest in eventually reading. (Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler I will pass on, I had enough of them in college, and no matter how influential he is I am not going to try to make sense of Calvin. But I dipped into Euclid briefly some thirty-five years after my freshman math tutorial and to my surprise found him totally delightful, so am waiting for a time when I can take a week to work through him with pencil and paper in hand, or when I have mounted a blackboard on a convenient wall.) Fortunately, when we designed the new house we designed it not only with a two story library, but with wide hallways lined with bookshelves. Plus the guest house still holds several thousand of our volumes we didn't bring down here with us. So it will still be a few years before I can afford to get squeezed out of the house by unread book piles.