“Among the treasures and other booty that was taken from Darius, there was a very precious casket, which being brought to Alexander for a great rarity, he asked those about him what they thought fittest to be laid up in it; and when they had delivered their various opinions, he told them he should keep Homer’s Iliad in it.” – page 26, The Life of Alexander the Great
The Life of Alexander the Great by Plutarch
My books rest on a bookshelf with no real order to them. To place them chronologically, or to place them alphabetically by author or by title, does not suit me. If anything, they are arranged by size; the top shelf and bottom shelf are both smaller than the middle shelf. All my small books stand with their spines exposed on the top shelf, kept upright by a horizontal stack of books that are too tall to stand up straight. The books on the middle shelf are of varying heights, but all are too tall for the top shelf. The books on the bottom shelf remain horizontally stacked because they are also too tall to stand up straight. This is not organized, but it suits me. Continue reading
Thought After Books 