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About My Library

My library is fairly small but contains upwards of three (3) books. The mathematics collection includes texts for most undergraduate and beginning graduate subjects, but is rather lacking in reference works. The classics collection is woefully inadequate in terms of reference works.

About Me

I think books should be made of soup, only it should be metal soup that looks like figs

Ada > Pnin > Pale Fire > Lolita

I am at the University of Auckland. Please ask about library classification systems.

I am primarily interested in geometry and in classical studies (particularly Greek literature, though recently I have become interested in Egyptian literature).

I want to learn Georgian next.

Freddy recognised the truth of what he said. She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which cannot be stilled save by the frequent and plentiful acquisition of books. This passion is more common, and more plentiful, than most people suppose. Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines—not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their masters call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality.

~Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost, pp.178–179. Penguin (2006).

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Libraries: Central Library, Wellington City Libraries, University of Toronto - Gerstein Science Information Centre, Victoria University of Wellington - Central Library

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