/lit/ - Literature

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i've attended or taught at: princeton, NYU, stanford, cornell. you?

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hey thanks a lot for the input, very honest and insightful. good anon is good.
let me ask you: what is it about computers that interests you?
this is going to sound like an odd question but will help me orient toward your thinking: when i say something to you like "intellectual fulfillment," what visceral images, feelings, vague or indistinct rumblings--what is it that comes immediately to mind? at this stage i am less interested in the exact nature of this or that passion and more so in the source of your passion more generally. the more honestly you can answer what naturally turns you on, what you naturally gravitate toward on an existential/aesthetic level--the better and more refined your library will be. would love to hear all about your interests, however uncultivated they currently are.

i've been collecting for a while and have a number of sources. honestly, between amazon, abe books, powells online and then a host of used bookstores in the areas i live (DC and cambridge, MA--some uniquely good stores in both locales), the flow of books is continuous and the quality is top-notch. i've never felt constrained or starved, save for trying to track down some particularly rare or hard to find titles.
i buy and select every single title, along with my wife.
as far as the large collection i'm about to acquire, that is coming through a very particular service called Ars Libri--a store in Boston that specializes in acquiring and distributing entire libraries, especially art libraries, to institutions. they are the boys that hook up a university with what they need in a single shipment or two. i very much like them and do business with them more generally, but this is the first time i've orchestrated anything like the purchase or an entire library. a private collector recently died and i happened to get first dibs.