Perhaps it is the classism thing that speaks to wanting to hold onto property, even if it's just books?
When I moved the rest of my stuff from my ex's house, one of the moving guys just stood in my apartment staring at my wall of books. And he perused them for a while, and asked me what I'd thought of this book or that, or offered his opinion because he'd read them. And then he was quiet for a while. Finally, he just shook his head and said "man, looking at this makes me wanna start keepin' my books. normally I just read 'em and then give them to someone. I figure I read it, I don't need to read it again. But this- this is amazing."
He was articulate. He'd read some of the same books I had. But he was definitely of a lower socio-economic class than me, and it had just never occurred to him to *keep* books. Books were disposable.
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Date: 2007-12-31 07:03 pm (UTC)When I moved the rest of my stuff from my ex's house, one of the moving guys just stood in my apartment staring at my wall of books. And he perused them for a while, and asked me what I'd thought of this book or that, or offered his opinion because he'd read them. And then he was quiet for a while. Finally, he just shook his head and said "man, looking at this makes me wanna start keepin' my books. normally I just read 'em and then give them to someone. I figure I read it, I don't need to read it again. But this- this is amazing."
He was articulate. He'd read some of the same books I had. But he was definitely of a lower socio-economic class than me, and it had just never occurred to him to *keep* books. Books were disposable.