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Library encounter [1]
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Date: 2025-07-29
Monday morning, my wife Alison and I made our usual weekly grocery run and library visit. As we entered the library, I noticed several antique books on display. One of the staff was in the same vicinity. I elected to point out to her that I possessed a few sets of antique books handed down to me by my father. Those sets include the complete works of Mark Twain, the complete works of William Shakespeare, The Library of Original Sources and The Harvard Classics. I haven’t read many of those antique books myself, but I failed to even communicate an understandable definition of The Harvard Classics.
Just now, I perused the introduction well enough to share what this book collection is about. The editor stated that his purpose in selecting The Harvard Classics was to provide a reader with the progress of man from the earliest historical times up to the close of the nineteenth century. I noticed a problem with the opening sentence of his introduction — a masculine pronoun. The set contains 50 volumes. I have read only one of those volumes — The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini. I read that book because Cellini was a sculptor. I am too on some days. From his own words, my overall impression of Cellini was that he possessed few redeeming qualities. Might we know a current human with few redeeming qualities? I’m not sure. Further research is called for.
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