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Booking Pleasures,Used
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The covetous foraging for old and rare books, is how Matthews defines booking. It is an act which leads naturally to the pleasures of adding them to ones personal library, then reading them as instruments of light and measure in a murky and chaotic world. The understanding that books are intrinsic to civilized living is wisdom as old as civilization itself; it is affirmed here, in their various ways, by the people who inspire and inhabit these pages: the quasiliterate clerk of the steamboat Science on the Ohio River in 1835; a young fiction writer who got drunk one night and stole the bust of Edgar Allen Poe from the Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia; and a guru of the computer age, who writes: Books have always been important to me and to the people around me.Matthews explores the collecting of old dictionaries, whose definitions can be read as a sort of poetry; an 1840s rhyming book once used as a mnemonic tool for small children; and the wildly scrawled annotations of an exuberant painter in a battered copy of Thomas Hart Bentons An Artist in America.In other essays, Matthews compares booking with Charles Darwins passion for collecting beetles; follows Nero Wolfe of the Rex Stout novels, who grew tentatively into a vivid and fascinating detective; and celebrates the zealous idealism of 1890s fraternity boys as reflected by some of their centuryold publications.In sharing Matthewss adventures as an implacable bookman, readers will find, not an escape from life, but new entrance ways through old books.
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