When books must go:
A reader in Philadelphia, a retired attorney, tells me he and his wife are moving into a retirement home....Patrick Kurp, "My Reluctance to Let Certain Books Go," Anecdotal Evidence, July 16, 2022.
“But our apartment,” he writes, “is far smaller than our six-bedroom home so I am situationally compelled to perform a massive bibliotomy. ...."
I don’t envy him the task of culling his library. One gauge of worth is re-readability. I would be unlikely to dump a title I might want to read again, or at least consult. Books frequently reread maintain continuity with the past – always a source of consolation. They live in us like pleasingly pleasant memories, the bittersweet sort we revisit and savor. ....
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