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his system completely from any rooted in notions of sharing or even the temptation to share. The number of words in a title, the number of letters in a word, had inspired him to make who knew how many charts, sketched out on paper, clarified, improved, abandoned more often than not. His imagination never ran dry of new innovations and combinations, each one more sophisticated than the last. For one entire summer, it was ten years ago, he’d lived like a happy stowaway in this cool, dark room, completing a twofold partitioning: first the books were classified by the number of chapters in them and then they were organized from fewest chapters to most. Next, each section was organized alphabetically, according to the first letter of the penultimate (or the first and last, if there were only one) chapter. Magnificent! Undecipherable! At first he was as excited as a mischievous child when he inserted each new acquisition, relying as he was on a self-evident principle that only he could see. But what made the system so reassuring, the charm of being arbitrary, was also a reflection of its limitation: it was sterile and automatic, not rooted in any profound meaning. “A machine could have done it, one of your computers, for example. Just the thought was enough to kill my euphoria instantly. What my system lacked was soul, that special something that matters to me so much. I still hadn’t achieved it.”Конец ознакомительного фрагмента.
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