I have a Webster’s Second. I have a Webster’s Third. And I have a second Third, bought a library book-sale (for fifty cents, I think). The second Third is a first edition, with a color portrait of Noah Webster in the front and the name of a long-time member of the university community stamped on the inside cover.
I don’t need a second Third. My first Third is enough. But when it came time to haul books to the library today, the second Third made it back to the house from the car. I’m not parting with it yet.
Thursday, September 1, 2022
A second Third
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Huh. My First Third is by Neal Cassady.
Good one!
Espousers of Minimalism don't know what they are missing when claim we can all enjoy books coldly on screen, books plastic wrapped from the library, or books appearing from the cloud. Come to think of it, I never read about minimalists collecting art.
An absence of art — that’s revealing, and sad. I checked a few sentences I wrote about the terrible documentary Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things and see that bare white walls were part of the look.
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