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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Buy a book, don't read it so that it can remain valuable....yeah that makes a lot of sense. NOT!  |
That's somewhat of a misrepresentation of Eco's statement; he portrays it metaphorically (quote is originally from Taleb's Black Swan):
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight read-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.
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Hence, the portrays the knowledge in books you haven't read as more valuable than the knowledge in books you did read
