I am the God Emperor of my library, goddammit. I can throw out books if I choose. I can.
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Yes. I'm strong and decisive. I have 13 huge bookshelves at my place, about ten crates of books in the attic, no less than 4 in the basement & still, I can't move because there are piles of books everywhere. I can, but I haven't done it in 40 yrs, but I can because I'm strong!
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Reminds me of Die Blendung, Elias Canetti, with this beautiful professor Kien.
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I still own my dad's collection of Dune. I can throw 'em out anyyytiime. I just haven't yet... I like them.
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But is it ever a gut wrenching process... Almost every book calls forth a memory (or two or eleven) from outside of its pages, and even if those memories are painful, giving them up takes so much time and deliberation! Godspeed, Your Highness.
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A writer throwing a book away is like a priest laughing during confesion.
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