Comments | zerozero: Self aware and self obsessed.

zerozero

Self aware and self obsessed.

Aug 16, 2002 16:34

Sat down to type up some Z38.5 nonsense and ended up thinking instead about the reactions I got when I mentioned I gave away books when I had finished with them. Much like the reactions of some people when they see me bending books in half to make them easier to hold - or reading in the bath. I’m just not precious about them, I’m the same with ( Read more... )

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kixie August 16 2002, 15:03:20 UTC

Hey, just give me stuff!

My friend gave me a lot of her cds because she just gave them away when finished, or...bored of them or something.

I never understood that, I always take out old books, reread them, listen to old cds for a trip down memory lane - then again whenever you move it'll be easier for you and your back.

refreshing consciousness oscuridad August 16 2002, 15:19:41 UTC

cool. so many people never think that they aren't the things they have. I have a lot of admiration for people with that level of mindfulness. (not sure if mindfulness is the right word...but something, its good. la. [/end random babbling comment])

latristesse August 16 2002, 21:01:08 UTC

Hmm, interesting that such tiny things as throwing away books fit in so nicely with your method of creating. Personally, I keep books, unless I seriously will never read them again or give them to anyone else to read. In fact, I think that's more the reason I keep them than anything else, if I've loved them: I want to be able to thrust them on other people. I suppose giving books to Oxfam is no different. I think I'm finally beginning to understand the value of giving up something you love.

Thank you for your text earlier, although I got told off for sniggering in the library.

zerozero August 17 2002, 06:33:42 UTC

thrusting books on other people is often how it goes - but I say that rather then giving it back to me when they are done to pass it on to someone else.

Lesson Unlearned crypx August 16 2002, 23:25:54 UTC

Reading a book in Noodle Time over a soup dish .. dropped it in .. picked quickly up .. patted napkin thing over it .. carried on reading.

And I hate how if you read a book in the bath it ends up all crinkly .. so hence forced myself to stop that.

hmm.... bohofaery August 17 2002, 01:00:34 UTC

On one level this is familiar and inspiring - because of my parents' jobs I've had to move twelve or thirteen times (I lost count) during my childhood and went to six different primary schools. So I've never become connected with places, although because they were fleeting the memory and associations are all the more poignant. And in a way I prefer it that way. I hate loss, even loss of something so simple as time, and to live in the same house forever and have memories piled behind every corner and in every room would be unbearable. One of my techniques is to make Letting Go partly a geographical thing. I leave the past in the place it happened, and move on. I love the clean-slate feeling of settling in somewhere new and I love leaving it again. It's the same principle - there'll always be turnover, always a change for something new.

(This post, however, struck me as ironic in several ways. By always shedding your skin periodically, you're creating your own pattern, your own stability. It's like when punk became fashionable - it ( ... )