Yeah, you can just hear the subtext, "And that is where all my books would reside." Pretentiousness with a huge dollop of ego.
It's like the moment in Dante's Inferno, where the occupants (mostly great philosophers and artists, as I recall) of the comfiest circle of 'hell' say to him, "You'll be here with us some day."
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Date: 2005-11-30 12:17 pm (UTC)It's like the moment in Dante's Inferno, where the occupants (mostly great philosophers and artists, as I recall) of the comfiest circle of 'hell' say to him, "You'll be here with us some day."