Published: December 19, 2008
The relevant ideas raised were:
- (Book)stuffers are trying to create an aide-mémoire (memory aid) for themselves. “I have filled books with flowers I’ve received, to save the flowers in dried form and to remember the happy moment of receiving them,"
- Anne Fadiman (whose book excerpt I will link in another post) says that these aides-mémoires are often specific to the book owner’s profession. Fadiman writes about a landscape architect who “savors the very smell of the dirt embedded in his botany texts; it is the alluvium of his life’s work.”
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