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Sep. 27th, 2011
(It's quiet in here today... very quiet... too quiet...?)
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slemslempike. Not perhaps quite as bad as the poncey bookshelves people? Jury is out. Turn a Treasured Hardcover Book into a Picture Frame (the whole how-to tutorial: medical diagnosis here, blud thikt wiv cold). How about, let's not?
Books as makeshift bedside table is far from the ideal way to store them, and we note that there is a certain aestheticisation going on (rather than mere pragmatism) with those Persephones all together, matched vintage Penguins, etc, and the inability to actually access any of the volumes without destroying the effect, if not the entire thing. But it does speak at least of owning books and having shelving problems, rather than purely poncey effects to be produced and evidence of wild creativity run amok.
As opposed to turning 'treasured, vintage' books into family photo frames.
Can I get an 'aaaargh' there?
*I totally concede that many of my own books, now and over the years, have been stored in less than optimum ways. They are Too Meny, and I suspect always will be, even with the culling and downsizing that has recently taken place. Possibly I am book-equivalent of Mad Cat Lady who is eventually invaded by the RSPCA and the local Environmental Health Officer. However, they no longer constitute an actual labyrinth feature in the front room.
Textbook can be finished nao?
This last chapter is boring/worrying me. A lot of it is making sure I tick boxes and footnote them with citations.
But honestly, I'm a lot happier grappling with the epidemic increase in lymphogranuloma venereum than I am with trying to get my head around the sexualisation debates/furore.
Because STI stats are STI stats, but things like sexualisation are so the sort of thing that history is likely to gaze back on and say WTF (along with White Slavery, Khaki Fever and Yellow Golliwogs).
I suppose that is a point I could make, but I still need something to cite to. And really have v little inclination to do an extensive lit survey.