Vocabulary: Tsundoku

[ysabetwordsmith]

Surround yourself with books you haven't read yet.

Sure I've read a lot of the thousands of books that line my house. I haven't read them all. It would be awful to need a book to read and not have a fresh one. I can pull a cookbook off the shelf for a long car ride, or poke through piles of things I picked up at a used book store that looked interesting.

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Re: Well ...

[redsixwing]

Oh /lovely./

When I was a kid, I imagined heaven as unlimited time, a box of every colored pencil that never runs out, and a truly epic span of ...well, I can't quite call it paper, but material to draw and create upon.

As an adult, I've added on quite a bit. I'll happily weave the Library in, too.

Re: Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>When I was a kid, I imagined heaven as unlimited time, a box of every colored pencil that never runs out, and a truly epic span of ...well, I can't quite call it paper, but material to draw and create upon.<<

Sounds like the Drawing Room. And yeah, if we're thinking of the same stuff, it's light and flexible like paper, but it doesn't crumple, won't tear, and can't cut you. It's a composite of drawing materials that people remember. If you want the kind of paper you can cut and tear, it's in the more general Craft Room.

... yes, I've memorized a bunch of favorite places in the afterlife. Makes it easier to get people through the Door.

>>As an adult, I've added on quite a bit. I'll happily weave the Library in, too.<<

I have a big pen-and-ink rendering of it that someone drew. It was selling like hotcakes at a con.

Re: Well ...

[redsixwing]

>> And yeah, if we're thinking of the same stuff, it's light and flexible like paper, but it doesn't crumple, won't tear, and can't cut you. <<

That's an eerily good description. :)