(And, on a Stormy Present recommendation, today I took out a book by Jose Saramago: "The Tale of The Unknown Island"--'coz it's very slim and the older I get, the more I enjoy a slim volume)
The Tao of Physics should go on your special shelf marked: "Beware!" When guests come round, there they go, over to the books. That shifty looking chap--he's off in the Alternative Energy section. That nice lady with the interesting earrings--no! She's gone over to the...to the...to...
Beware! Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Did you give any books away?
We have a number of vices. Accumulating books is one of them. If ever I were to go on a life-simplfying and decluttering binge I count "one library": that's not too many.
(In our quiet room--quiet except for the, er, cough cough!...sound of the shower, that's what I meant...I have a book of Go problems, Get Strong At Invading, and Lud Heat by Iain Sinclair.)
(I have to say I haven't got any better at invading.)
(In fact, I think the Go book was removed by popular request--so maybe it has the opposite of a laxative effect.) Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
