I? Have too many books.
Jul. 21st, 2010 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceThing is, when they're all on shelves - or, yes, piling up in front of shelves 'cos the shelves are all full - you don't quite realise how many that many is.
Then you take them off the shelves. And first you run out of boxes, and then you run out of bags, and then you end up stacking them on tables, and... Well. My living-room is now full, which is just the books from the dining-room. Just one room! Has filled a three-dimensional space!! And there's still all the shelving and the other crap and the table and chairs and so forth that need to be shifted if we are to work the carpet out from underneath. Urk.
If I become a Buddhist and swap my hedonistic accumulatory lifestyle for a begging-bowl and a wandering habit, can I just do it now, please? Just walk out of here and be off? And may I take the cats with me, are mendicant Buddhists allowed cats...?
Then you take them off the shelves. And first you run out of boxes, and then you run out of bags, and then you end up stacking them on tables, and... Well. My living-room is now full, which is just the books from the dining-room. Just one room! Has filled a three-dimensional space!! And there's still all the shelving and the other crap and the table and chairs and so forth that need to be shifted if we are to work the carpet out from underneath. Urk.
If I become a Buddhist and swap my hedonistic accumulatory lifestyle for a begging-bowl and a wandering habit, can I just do it now, please? Just walk out of here and be off? And may I take the cats with me, are mendicant Buddhists allowed cats...?