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I started working at Imzy a few weeks ago. I am decorating my desk like an old-timey library.
Still some work to go, but it's coming together nicely. It's a small collection, but an important one.
- The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
- The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
- The Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot
- Complete Poems and Major Prose by John Milton
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Likely getting a lamp with an edison lightbulb soon.




A fine little collection of canonic lit!
Is that one of those globes that's actually a wet bar? ;)
Ugh. I wish.
Ooh, those are some good ones.
That is a very fine collection there! I am a an especial fan of T.S. Eliot.
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
He is remarkable. I also love his Four Quartets.
I taught high school English for 17 years before writing novels full time and indeed, Prufrock was part of it, but I used to spend three days every year on "The Waste Land" explaining the literary allusions in it, and without fail it blew kids away and crumbled their resistance to exploring poetry. They never thought, before Eliot, that poetry could contain so much.
@KevinHearne my favorite part of The Waste Land is the bartender speaking over the scene in "A Game of Chess"
Can other employees borrow from this library? You need a system. Who knows what sorts of library delinquents are lurking about the office.
The card catalog bookends serves exactly that purpose!
I also recommend (to add to your philosophy texts and aesthetic reasoning): Kant's 'Critique of Judgement' and my personal favourite, Sircello's 'Love and Beauty'. The latter should be much better known than it is, and I keep threatening to publicly declare it as my personal manifesto!
Oh, I'm definitely working on my philosophy section, so this is appreciated. Still lots of work to go!