tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post6398344828549784340..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: My mommy? Or Umami?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-41845016461988340072017-04-22T17:12:36.874-05:002017-04-22T17:12:36.874-05:00You can't see it in the picture above, but tha...You can't see it in the picture above, but that green shield reads "Metaphysics."<br /><br />I still want a library like that, where I can have a section for "Metaphysics."<br /><br />Whether I'll read the books is another matter. A head full of theology, ecclesiology, Biblical history, church history, law, literature, and schools of criticism, not to mention diverse obtuse branches of philosophy (none of these subjects complete in their knowledge, by any means) is starting to feel surfeited.<br /><br />Or defeated; two conditions which often appear alike.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-76411604320333020592017-04-22T16:18:16.837-05:002017-04-22T16:18:16.837-05:00Part of the mania involved in collecting books is ...Part of the mania involved in collecting books is the ordinary obsession of the collector of anything. The more you have, the more "gaps" you know exist in your collection and the more you want to fill them.<br /><br />But books may be different because the bibliophile usually reads them as well, or intends to read them, because he or she is interested in what's in them, and wants to know what they say and enjoy them as entertainment. "Man by nature wants to know." I'd like to know everything, at least about the things that I am interested in. I am vaguely aware that I can't do that. In fact, I get the idea, I experience the sensation, that the more I know, the more I realize I don't know. So the chase has a kind of futility that you're aware of and just more or less ignore--because it's still fun to get a shiny new book.<br /><br />On the other hand, last year I came up with a plan that I ought not to buy another book until I'd read a certain number of unread ones, on a certain pace. So now, before I buy another one, I have to finish ten, and refrain from further purchases until September 24. We'll see if the resolve holds. (OK, I bought an introductory textbook on Arabic this morning at a garage sale. But the restriction excludes books at $2 or less).rick allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612435616018593956noreply@blogger.com