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is a book. A diary (VI)

September 10

Yesterday I had dinner at the home of a middle class couple, the kind that every month, earning more than five thousand euros. We speak of detective novels, which now seems to be synonymous with Nordic novels. The hosts are people who are alert to all developments in the genre. But yes: novels that can be drawn from the library near his home. Because you never buy a book. Read all taking advantage of the loan service. It is not the only case I know, of course. Many of my acquaintances are supplied with books in the same way.

Sometimes, but not always, these people refer to lack of space at home, or, even, and it already seems more surprising, how expensive books are. We're talking about people who wear nice clothes (that really is expensive!), Living in good houses, and you strike at the least, his last trip to Istanbul, New York or Syria. I know we live in an age that claims the total free in the culture, stupid I do not share if we do not introduce distinctions of various kinds. But man, what's expensive is relative, right? At least for them.

I know that implementing it would not be easy, but I think the criterion should be very different: the service of lending libraries should be able to use almost all of whom only months have to adjust their spending to the penny: the unemployed, students, the poor. And in any case, I think, and very occasionally, bibliomaniac tiny minority of those who buy books as well as non-stop need to consult with such volumes, to prove all the books, which could also fall into ruin if they had the kind of help for your condition.

Then, thinking about those wealthy who consume only books on loan, thus impeding the access to those who really need them, I get an explanation. These people belong to the majority who never read something twice. CS Lewis says that " sure sign that someone lacks literary sensibility is that, for him, the phrase "I've read 'is a final argument against reading a certain book." For these people, continues Lewis, read a book is a dead book, "like a burnt match, a used train ticket or a newspaper the day before, and had used it."