Gardens and libraries
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
In a nice confluence Borges wrote, “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library”. Paradise literally being a walled garden.
I still have my library and almost require more shelving but I’m going to lose my garden. That might result in moving. Again. And no matter the deficiencies (one bedroom, no bath just a shower, small kitchen) this is a great apartment. The agony of moving is tempered only by irrational thoughts of moving somewhere more interesting, somewhere away from the city.
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