am i a book fetishist?

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Michael McAulay wrote:
> 
> Tony Elias wrote:
> 
> > I mention these mundanities because p-listers are the only people who might
> > relate to the queer senation of holding it, looking at its gorgeous cover
> > and binding, finally having it in your hands, yours. reading it is another
> > kind of joy altogether, right now, it's just the book, the object. Is this a
> > derivate of some strange commodity fetishism - or is it a bibliophilia of a
> > peculiarly Pynchonian character?
> 
> You're not the only one.  I experienced something very similar when I
> purchased my copy.  Time slowed perceptibly as I approached the shop (in
> a mall - teeming with people who mysteriously seemed NOT TO CARE NOR
> EVEN KNOW that as of that day a new Pynchon work had been made
> available).  When I spied the display case I felt a distinct twinge in
> my abdomen.  And then...ah, the heft of it.
> 
> As I passed over the threshold on my way out of the store I felt as if
> were getting away with something...as if I had stolen a relic from a
> sacred place.  Surely it could not be so easy?
> 
> The last time I can remember a book affecting me similarly was...well,
> Vineland.  And before that Slow Learner.  So it is certainly peculiar to
> Pynchon in my case.
> 
> --
> Mike McAulay
> Sr. Engineer
> 3DO
a bow to you, mike. i am not alone in my obsession with books. check
this out, another brother in arms:
books dominate my head. i read in them, i read at them,
i'm well into my thirties. what about real life?
				--mark halliday, "reality u.s.a"
heft on,
ray