1/ 🧵 Barons of bounty favor floor-to-ceiling bookshelves that cover the entire wall of their living rooms, brimming with expensive-looking titles, perfectly arranged for show. Supermarket-style ordering, with the priciest and rarest titles placed at eye level.
2/🧵 . Not that they’d really read these–you’d have to sneak into their bedroom, dare to peek into their nightstand drawer to reveal what occupies their literary minds, assuming they read at all.
3/🧵 Beggars of beauty often have similar shelves, except theirs are simple wooden ones bending under the weight of books touched by hands, destinies, and even the hand of destiny, at least in this corner of the world, where mere book ownership could get you into a serious pickle for a good portion of the last century.
4/🧵 Being a bookworm by nature and in spirit, I had always dreamed of these saggy bookshelves. Or, more precisely, I longed for the masterpieces whose heft made the shelves sag.
5/🧵 Yet I left all my books behind. Here’s why: https://inleo.io/@godfish/books-left-behind-9lm?referral=godfish