A time to keep, and a time to cast away

[@Formandformlessness]

Hey, Texan here too, with MANY of the same impulses 😅. I’ve historically kept my collection at around 1,000, but I’m pressing past that now. The newest obsession for me is poetry, but Latin American and German literature have long been areas of interest. As someone a bit older, however, I’d take the liberty of saying: if it causes anything other than pleasure, I wouldn’t worry too much about what you’ll read “for the rest of your life.” At least in my experience, the reading horizon is always shifting, and it doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Also: 70 bucks for the OED is insane. Nice.

[@plexibubble]

"a bunch of extra books" this really hits hard, Drake, and so true.. I'm struggling with too many books, and it's become an emotional / psychic albatross. I need to seriously cull my collection..

[@Orpheuslament]

@@plexibubble It took me a lot of mental effort but has been worth it. Out of the several hundred books I've moved along I haven't needed to buy hardly any back.

[@TheBookedEscapePlan]

Boy, did this hit home, Drake. I've been struggling lately to balance my own disparate interests in light of being a full-time member of the workforce. Between my literary pursuits, my competitive running, and my love for mathematics, it's very, very difficult sometimes to keep up on everything.

[@Orpheuslament]

@@TheBookedEscapePlan It's a never ending struggle in my experience but I feel lucky to have such a problem.

[@valpergalit]

Good to know that Legee is a legit scholar. I recently bought a copy of his translation of the I Ching, and didn’t realize until I got home that the dust jacket heavily presents it as a self-help book. Questions like “should you apply for a job?” and “should you marry your girlfriend?” adorn the back. I was like, Oh lord, this is gonna be some bullshit 😂

[@Orpheuslament]

I would imagine that edition was published by the time his edition was in the public domain and they had their way with the dustjacket. I was highly skeptical of the I Ching because it suffered the fate of so much great thought of the "east" by being bastardized by doofuses in the US (usually) who didn't bother to understand what they used for their own self-satisfaction. Seems your edition was appealing to those people. If you stumble across Minford's edition by Penguin I'd highly recommend it because he emphasizes the usefulness of the book while also keeping it fully scholarly.

[@danielweaver26]

Hell yes

[@basserman]

A time to post, a time to watch Orpheus

[@Typis_Esdrae]

Thank you.