Reading Goal - Read About People Whose Stories Inspire My Own. 

Existential Riddles

Shouts & Murmurs: “Which is heavier, a ton of feathers or a ton of gold? Everything is equal in a cruelly indifferent universe.”

Ha - 

“A man is locked in a room with only a piano. How does he escape?

The man uses a piano “key” to escape. Then he uses religion to escape, then drugs, then a relationship that clearly won’t work out in the long term, then unhealthy food, then rage, then the “key” again, because it’s a cycle, it’s an endless cycle, and he can never truly escape until he accepts that she’s really gone.”

Oscar has been inspecting my shelves. Its hard to tell if he approves …

The leader is working so hard

communication is the foundation

They made a Cats movie and didn't put Tituss Burgess in it!!!? Greatest oversight of our lifetime...

Princess Mononoke (1997) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

Perfect book

This is the perfect medieval book: it is on purple parchment, written in golden letters, and illuminated with great images. To top it, the book is fitted in an original bookbox, very few of which survive. What more could a book lover want?

Pics: London, British Library, Stowe 955 (1500-1525). More information and additional images here.

Pretty sure my posts are only being followed by porn bots at this point. I used to get excited when I’d see a like on a post - if you’re into porn maybe this could be great - but for me it’s sadder to get attention from a porn-bot than no attention at all.

New Arrivals: First American Edition of Tolkien’s THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (1954). In the correct first printing dust jacket with the fold-out map of Middle Earth intact.

First volume of what is likely the most significant trilogy of books written in the last century. The first printing in the US was bound from British sheets, only 1,500 copies. A harder book than you might expect in the correct dust jacket, as points changed between the first 10 or so printings, and people are overly-fond of swapping dust jackets from later printings onto first printing books.

Tsk tsk…