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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Friday, December 09, 2005

This is me, more or less

I was brought up to believe that the destruction of any book at any time was the act of a tyrant. I read 'Fahrenheit 451' and absorbed its lesson. We must keep our books or the terrorists will have won. We must keep 'Fatal Civil Aircraft Accidents' and 'The Problem of the Wire Cage' and the Merck Manual from 1989 and 'The Best of Collier's' and 'Batty, Bloomers and Boycott' and 'Freshwater Fishes of California' and the loathsome 'A Secret History' by Donna Tartt and even 'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner, even though the pages are loose, the type is tiny, the binding promotes sneezing and, anyway, if I haven't read it now I ain't gonna read it no matter how much I pretend I will -- or the terrorists will have won.
And the other stuff he mentions: papers, souveniers, more computer parts than I know what to do with, etc. I'm hoping that as we get closer to re-doing the kitchen and tearing out the carpets, we'll be inspired to get rid of some of the junk.
|| Andrew, 6:34 PM || ||

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