Signs that the books have taken over
- Your parents send you an article from the L. A. Times that describes the lengths to which people will go to house their personal libraries--converting a garage, for example. It's not clear if this article is meant to be prophetic or admonitory.
- You remember that one of your father's professors kept books in his oven (until, that is, a graduate student turned it on). After all, you don't use your own oven for much of anything, so...
- Your mother recommends building library stacks.
- The books have pride of place in your voice mail message.
- When visiting someone's house, you automatically calculate how much wall space could be used for bookcases.
- You take the local bookstores into consideration when deciding whether or not to propose a paper for a conference.
- Visitors inquire if books have the same mating habits as rabbits.
- The furniture store deliveryman remembers you. And your bookcases.
- A trip to Chicago is incomplete without expeditions to Powell's, O'Gara's, and the Seminary Co-Op. Who needs to go clothes shopping on the Miracle Mile?
- Will work for books.