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Originally Posted by Lin2412
"The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."
-Anatole Broyard
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For some people that's true. But for some others, the contents of one's bookcase may be one or more of the following:- Aspirational
- Reflective of gifts that others think the recipient should own or read
- Reflective of whomever the owner might have inherited the books from - which, I guess, fits somewhat with the quotation
- Mere window dressing (as reflected in The Sopranos scene wherein shallow, image-conscious Carmela Soprano tells her lover, Robert Wegler, that a book he's given her will look good on her shelf)
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The deleted image of Carmela peering into the window of Furio's empty house - taken from yet another
Sopranos episode ["Eloise” (Season 4, Episode 12; airdate 12/1/2002)] - is visible
here.