The categorisation of doubt
Jan. 19th, 2012 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI should like to say "I am in the Silence Room," but hah. Pah. Nay, bah, even. It needs a new name: the Soundbox, perhaps?
They are resurfacing the road above. This place might as well be an echo-chamber.
No matter. What's a little noise? (I don't know, I've forgotten. Here are no little noises.)
In other news - if you can hear me? - I carefully set up bookshelves on my Kindle, what they are pleased to call Collections, for I am full of wise purpose and good intent, not to let this new thing grow as chaotic as everything else in my life. We'll see how long that lasts - but for now I have categories of SF and Fantasy. Only last night someone pointed me towards Amazon's list of free Kindle books, and now I have The Three Musketeers and Moby-Dick as well. Um, what do I call these, then? I'm reluctant to create a shelf of Literature, because that draws a distinction I dislike. Classics more or less does the same thing. Non-Genre Fiction is both ugly and untrue: both of these are genre novels, in among their other virtues, they're just not genres that I need whole shelves for. It are a quandary. And then there's Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine by William Carew - but I'm happy to have a shelf of general non-fiction, unless/until I need a shelf of Food.
They are resurfacing the road above. This place might as well be an echo-chamber.
No matter. What's a little noise? (I don't know, I've forgotten. Here are no little noises.)
In other news - if you can hear me? - I carefully set up bookshelves on my Kindle, what they are pleased to call Collections, for I am full of wise purpose and good intent, not to let this new thing grow as chaotic as everything else in my life. We'll see how long that lasts - but for now I have categories of SF and Fantasy. Only last night someone pointed me towards Amazon's list of free Kindle books, and now I have The Three Musketeers and Moby-Dick as well. Um, what do I call these, then? I'm reluctant to create a shelf of Literature, because that draws a distinction I dislike. Classics more or less does the same thing. Non-Genre Fiction is both ugly and untrue: both of these are genre novels, in among their other virtues, they're just not genres that I need whole shelves for. It are a quandary. And then there's Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine by William Carew - but I'm happy to have a shelf of general non-fiction, unless/until I need a shelf of Food.