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Hekate

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8. That's me all over. I want a calligraphy print of the word in Japanese brushwork...

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Sat Nov 1, 2025, 12:21 AM

Nov 1

But when I went looking online all I found were fairly soppy motivational posters in English.

I ran across a YouTube video that was kind of neat, but the listeners’ comments tended to be jarringly judgmental — and in this world, I see enough of that. I am a bibliophile, in a world where public libraries are in danger of withering away.

I love this: The underlying idea is that a collection of unread books can show curiosity, humility and ambition in the face of knowledge. It’s a monument not to what you already know, but to the infinite things you don’t. ....

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Library of unread books? - There's a name for that. [View all] UTUSN Oct 31 OP

Oh, that does sound familiar. Ocelot II Oct 31 #1

Yea, I currently have 14 books on my end table, which is my "first drop point" lol ms liberty Oct 31 #2

In addition to the above, I have another category - books that I read when I was too young, lacked UTUSN Oct 31 #3

YouTube is increasingly flooded with AI slop. I would be very very careful about accepting anything there as factual. eppur_se_muova Oct 31 #4

You said it. Even before that, if I mentioned "the internet" I would run into people who would UTUSN Oct 31 #5

Guilty! bif Oct 31 #6

You're acquited! UTUSN Oct 31 #7

That's me all over. I want a calligraphy print of the word in Japanese brushwork... Hekate Nov 1 #8

Good to know there's a word for my affliction. Borogove Nov 2 #9

Seems like we are Legion. But in my ancient days have whittled down my hoard to about 150. UTUSN Nov 2 #10

Musicians have a term for the stack of method books, etudes, excepts, and other exercises that they... LudwigPastorius Nov 2 #11

Hah! - I love it when musicians combine themselves with comedy. UTUSN Nov 2 #12