![]() ![]() In this particular case, I've just finished reading through Isherwood's immense diary, published in four volumes between 19, in an edition scrupulously edited by Auden scholar Katherine Bucknell. But it does make for interesting times when you actually get around to reading some of the results of this fixation. ![]() Freud had a name for it, I'm afraid: the anal-retentive personality. The result, twenty or thirty years later, is a living space stuffed to the gills with books and pictures and boxfiles of papers. You start off collecting one thing, but then you have to start a series of sub-collections to flesh out the context of your object of desire (whatever it may be: poetry, military history, the 1001 Nights. ![]() That is, in a nutshell, pretty much how a bibliophile's mind works. ![]()
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