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This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
-John Hodgman
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This Is One Of The Defining Sorrows

John Hodgman
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
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The books in mo and meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. there where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. books on the tv set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. they welcomed meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. and sometimes you fall over them.
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I am a product of endless books. my father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. there were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...in the seemingly endless rainy afternoons i took volume after volume from the shelves. i had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.
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One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's.
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The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. they sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. it is not good for the little books. and really valuable books have been allowed to go out of print. in the old days, the publishers knew that these difficult books, the books that appeal only to a minority, were very productive in the long run. because they're probably the books that will be read in the next generation.
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The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. meant-to-be-picked-up books. permanently-left-behind books. uncertain-what-to-do-with books. but books, books. tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. the overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. there was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.
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My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. when i visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. those children do not see their parents reading, as i did every day of my childhood. by contrast, when i walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then i know what i would see if i opened the door that says 'private--grownups keep out': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.
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