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Saturday 18 July 2009

…when it comes to reading material, I am the hero of Bertolucci’s Partner, with his room filled with stacks of books; I am Burgess Meredith on the steps of the library after the world has ended. I have no interest in little fiddly mechanical gadgets designed to store my library in cyberspace where the silverfish can’t get at it, and I have even less interest in hearing anyone explain to me why these innovations will displace the storehouse of printed crack that is my favorite of the countless reasons that my apartment is unfit for human habitation. I can understand the appeal in theory, just as I understand in theory the appeal of those little pills the astronauts in old sci-fi movies used to gulp that, the movie’s resident Werner von Braun would explain, packed all ze nutrients of a three-course dinner vit steak und ize cream into a zingle capsule. But the thing is, I enjoying chewing, and I want my stuff. Phil Nugent

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