Borges

Read one - discover three! It's next to impossible to deal with books and not get enmeshed in their spider cobweb: it's one endless criss-cross of influences - what they usually term the intertextuality.
My ambitions are not that academic however - I do not track Dickinson in Brooklyn. What pains me is that even before you're done with something interesting, something new and exciting is on the horizon. Imagine this in 'good ol' days' when you had to wait 2 weeks for Amazon. The thing arrives but the mental state is upturned, uprooted and already elsewhere.
Finally, when I was, God, I guess 29, I got myself a treat of running a bookstore. Even though the end result was not a bout of avid reading, finally the endless quest of looking for books was done. Or, more correctly, it turned into a daily affair, multiplied by about a hundred.
I once also tried being a librarian but they would not have me. Same in the case of deejaying - well, thank goodness that when it comes to visual arts I can appreciate in inklings only. I wouldn't give in that easily in case of theatre.
But where does all this collecting lead to? Well, as I once joked, nothing surpasses coffee with humanist education in the background, or - in words of the immortal Welles in Kane: "He doesn't. He collects someone who collects jewellery".