Jonathan Lethem Quotes

Every Room I've Lived In Since I Was Given My Own Room At Eleven Was Lined With, And Usually Overfull Of, Books. My Employment In Bookstores Was Always Continuous With My Private Hours: Shelving And Alphabetizing, Building Shelves, And Browsing
In My Collection And Others
In Order To Understand A Small Amount About The Widest Possible Number Of Books. Such Numbers Of Books Are Constantly Acquired That Constant Culling Is Necessary; If I Slouch In This Discipline, The Books Erupt. I've Also Bricked Myself In With Music
vinyl Records, Then Compact Discs. My Homes Have Been Improbably Information-dense, Like Capsules For Survival Of A Nuclear War, Or Models Of The Interior Of My Own Skull. That Comparison
room As Brain
Is One I've Often Reached For In Describing The Rooms Of Others, But It Began With The Suspicion That I'd Externalized My Own Brain, For Anyone Who Cared To Look.

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