What You Don't Know
What You Don't Know
a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.
Originally shared by Italo Perazzoli
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilibrary/
a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.
Originally shared by Italo Perazzoli
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilibrary/
Jeff Bond Umberto Eco is one of my life heroes. :)
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ReplyDeleteBernard Vatant Wonderful. That's the way I feel, too. :)
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