My study is full of books. I try to keep them on shelves but there isn't enough space so some are on the floor under the shelves, some on the furniture, and when I write gradually they circle me, on the desk round the lap-top and round my chair on the floor. Then I have to return them all - there is a system or rather systems. The theory books are fairly chronological, Marx to Bourdieu mainly, though anything using psychoanalysis is alphabetical, as are also the feminist critical books .
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There are also shelves for library books and books borrowed from other people, a shelf, quite haphazard, for modernism, (that fits), a Pound section, a H.D section, an anthropological theory section - though lots of books there are not really anthropological at all, but fit to me - all alphabetically - though Native American and.... [narrative ends]

Berlin, 17/11/09: reader-contributor Berlin_d