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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (67262)	3/2/2005 5:42:18 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

OK-- let's see. The lost post was about books. If you want to read something really scary, read Anne Fadiman's essay "Never Do That to a Book" in Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader. She writes not only without a shudder but with something approaching approval about a friend who will buy a book to read on trips and as he finishes each chapter tear it out and throw it away to make the book lighter as he goes along. She criticizes the "courtly lovers" who treat their books with care and respect, writing "Just think what courtly lovers miss by believing that the only thing they are permitted to do with books is read them. What do they use for shims, doorstops, glueing weights, and rug-flatteners?" I had to lie down for fifteen minutes with a cold compress on my forehead to recover from the pain of reading that essay.