Quotulatiousness

December 28, 2020

QotD: Book accumulation

Filed under: Books, Quotations — Tags: — Nicholas @ 01:00

I am an accumulator rather than a collector, and my library grows according to a bad Malthusian principle: I buy books geometrically and read them arithmetically, with the most obvious consequences for shelf-space. Furthermore, at my age I should be shedding possessions rather than still accumulating them: but I have this strange reluctance to get rid even of books that I shall never look at again and were no good in the first place.

However, I never buy a book without intending to read it, and intention is, if not nine-tenths of accomplishment, at least some portion of it.

Theodore Dalrymple, “Sufficiently Educated to Embrace the Simplistic”, The Iconoclast, 2020-09-24.

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