Seven books I keep close because I love them
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Seven books I keep close because I love them The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting up, has seven books on it, not necessarily the ones I look in the most, but the ones whose emanations I most hope will infuse me as I write.
The one I actually refer to most often is the Harper and Row Roget's Thesaurus . I thought I had acquired this in my teens, but the note on the flyleaf says 1989.
This is the fourth edition. I was very excited to get the eighth edition, which I thought I might like better, and for some time I kept them next to each other so that I could look up the same things in both, and compare. my conclusion was that while the eighth edition had more stuff in it, it wasn't stuff I needed. And it is really fat. So I have retired it to a farther shelf and will eventually get rid of it.