Good morning...

[fajrdrako]

On Wednesday my nurse Renato looked thoughtfully at the walls of my living room and said, "You must like The Lord of the Rings."

I could hardly deny it.

When he was first here, he did a double-take to see the dragon on top of my harp. "What is it?" he asked.

Today he looked thoughtfully at the Rosemary Spragg relief of "North Portal, Chartres Cathedral" on my wall and asked what it was. Then he looked at my copy of The Rose of Versailles and said, "This is a Japanese book?" I explained - briefly and simply, I hope - what it was.

Then he said, "I've never seen an apartment like yours. I've been to a lot of places, but yours is different."

I hope he meant in a good way.

I don't think he's used to fannishness.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I hate having things around that I don't use all the time, but often I don't quite have the guts to just toss it

I have a lot of things like that. I'm hoping to pare them down a lot over the next month.

It's worst with books. I love too many of them, and have too many I haven't read in decades.

[omnivorously.livejournal.com]

Getting rid of books, in particular, seems Wrong, even if they most likely won't get read again any time soon and it would be easy to acquire another copy.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Getting rid of books not only feels wrong, it's next to impossible.

But sometimes necessary.