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… I can imagine a world without books. Because I can imagine a world without people. I think that’s the kind of world it would have to be.

I had terrible connectivity this morning, so I ended up reading a long stretch without being able to take notes every few minutes. Which was probably helpful to the book since it meant I had to shut up my critical voice to some degree and just read it. And I confess, I did enjoy it more as a result. But this statement: “Anna Karenina teaches us the importance of prioritizing our own feelings.“ D’what now?

“The first author I liked was German novelist Patrick Suskïnd.” …Really? 0_o

Sometimes, when I am reading a physical book, I will download an ebook if there is one available so I can have a dirty cheat for when I need to find something that I read, and I’m trying to remember.

Mid chapter, but I have to stop here. I am dead.

So far, chapters 16 and 21 are my favorites. On a sidenote, I think that I started “Eichmann in Jerusalem“ once, but did not finish it. I believe that Arendt’s assessment of Eichmann has been challenged, though: ie. more outright conniver than simple dumbassery.

The Analects. -.-.-.- Also, I want to paraphrase the author, who in the original is talking about quotes: “the joy of reading extends beyond the last page of the book. If you read a book that you like, write the title down immediately, so that you can revisit it anytime.”

but I have never read it. God, how much I have not read. Also, still relating things back to “libraries of the mind,“ which I read earlier this year.

This is brilliant: from “the library at night”: “a library, whatever its size, need not be read in its entirety to be useful; every reader profits from a fair balance between knowledge and ignorance, recall and oblivion.” I am sure I own this book, I believe my uncle gave it to me when I graduated from Simmons,