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Shelf-respect: books you honor with shelf-space but don’t seriously mean to read. What are yours? Especially recent ones. Usual suspects: Tufte, Knuth, Shakespeare, Rumi, Piketty, Bratton, Wolfram, Bible It isn’t signaling, anti-library, or aspiration. It’s...idolatry?
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The Lexicon of Freemasonry, because it looks far more interesting than it actually is, and the Lattimore translation of The Odyssey, because Wilson's supplants it.
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Gödel, Escher, Bach Infinite Jest Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Sometimes, I even let people think I've read more than their first chapters. But I swear, I'll read them one day (or at least chapter 2 😉). The stuff I actually read is on my Kindle
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