Delta of Venus by Anais Nin, Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin.
After weeks of avoiding buying new books, I finally succumbed to the temptation to splurge on paper backs today. Was it the book I had at hand? I was still in chapter one and an English couple were discussing how they would marry off one of their daughters to a young bachelor who recently moved to their neighborhood. Part of the reason, of course, is I had some money to spare.
In any case, the new paperbacks would be better than destroying my eyes with texts on the Internet or the .pdfs not to mention the fact that computer screens are not always available. But even if I feel Borges would love cyberspace if he lived to experience it, I still prefer the paper book. ■
I really love the cover of ‘Illuminations’.