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of the more interesting collections I have
ever seen. He made it his mission to track
down and acquire every single book (in its
first edition state, of course) that the poet
T.S. Eliot mentions or cites in his epic poem,
“The Waste Land.”
This fellow compiled a list and then
methodically sought out each one over
the course of 20 or so years, until he had
a rather large bookcase in his living room
filled with the completed collection.
The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard
wrote an essay in 1968—a year or so before
I began my collecting career—in which he
mused, “In the end, what one collects is
oneself.” I’ve been thinking about that a lot
as I look around at my idiosyncratic piles
of stuff.
And you know yourself—if you’re one of
those people who has to park on the street or
in the driveway because the garage is jammed
with everything you collect. You know. ISI The author’s collection of books published by Everyman’s Library. Photo by Nann Parrett.

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must be patient. a good run for their money.
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WHAT CONFUCIUS conclusions. to get there.
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exhausted. should change clothes in the basement.

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