"It's better than sex! It's BOOKS!"

[serinde]

audiovile just sent me the best quote EVAR:

"I am still in the thrall of one insatiable desire, which hitherto I have been neither able nor willing to check. I cannot get enough books. It may be that I have already more than I need, but it is with books as it is with other things: success in acquisition spurs the desire to get still more. Books, indeed, have a special charm. Gold, silver, gems, purple raiment, a house of marble, a well-tilled field, paintings, a steed with splendid trappings -- things such as these give but a silent and superficial pleasure. Books delight us through and through, they talk with us, they give us good counsel, they enter into a living and intimate companionship with us. What is more, not only does a book win the reader's affection for itself, but it mentions the names of other books, so that one stirs the desire for another." -- Petrarch

I love the universe again.

Comments

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I can't help it, I'm a complete stuff-ist. I find it hard to throw anything away because it might be useful. (And sometimes it has been!! STOP LAUGHING, STEVE.) With books, there's that, but also the problem that I have some mental thing that visualizes them almost at the "pet" level. I know it's insane, but there it is. Can't abandon a kitten, can't abandon a book.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

I've been fighting the Accumulation Of Stuff, mostly unsuccessfully, for the past 5.5 years. At least my apartment is big enough now that the books aren't completely eating it. Yet.