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[alexiscartwheel]

Last week Linda Holmes was praising libraries, now this... I may be starting to fangirl her just a bit.

Imagine if you'd seen everything good, or if you knew about everything good. Imagine if you really got to all the recordings and books and movies you're "supposed to see." Imagine you got through everybody's list, until everything you hadn't read didn't really need reading. That would imply that all the cultural value the world has managed to produce since a glob of primordial ooze first picked up a violin is so tiny and insignificant that a single human being can gobble all of it in one lifetime. That would make us failures, I think.

The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going to Miss Almost Everything

Comments

[carrotgirl.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is awesome.

[kit-the-brave.livejournal.com]

That is seriously lovely. I will fangirl her too!

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? I really like the idea of taking the pressure off yourself to read everything good and just acknowledge that there are some wonderful things you'll never get to... but in the meantime there are plenty of great things that you will!