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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

If On A Winter's Night A Traveler



Sections in the bookstore:

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes
Other Than Reading

- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong To The Category Of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days
Are Numbered

- Books You Mean To Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now And You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out In Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow
From Somebody

- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning To Read For Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting For Years Without Success
- Books Dealing With Something You're Working On At The Moment
- Books You Want To Own So They'll Be Handy Just In Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe To Read This Summer
- Books You Need To Go With Other Books On Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You With Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time To Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended To Have Read And Now It's Time to Sit Down And Really Read Them

--Italo Calvino
from If on a winter's night a traveler


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