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12.17.06

one man’s museum is another man’s graveyard

Another thing we did Friday evening was go to the library to pick up some point-to-point and interlibrary loan orders. (I ordered Irving’s The Cider House Rules, A Coney Island of the Mind by Ferlinghetti, Flannery O’Connor’s letters, and The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas. I’m 80 pages into The Cider House Rules so far and really enjoying Irving’s style.)

Mister Husband picked up For a Burning World is Come to Dance Inane: Essays By and About Jim Pomeroy. On the back cover I found this:

One man’s museum is another man’s graveyard is another’s goldmine is another’s dungheap is another’s pretension is another’s encyclopedia is another’s holy shrine is another’s balance sheet...promotional display...conqueror’s trophy case...cultural atrophy index...social registry...reliquary...hall of fame...wall of frames...hollow games....
A dissertation epigraph, found on the evening of my orals. Being superstitious, I find this rather encouraging.