Monday, December 08, 2008

The 10 Commandments of Book Giving


Said from on high, by the Washington Post's Michael Dirda.

From the story...

8. Expand the horizons of your friends and family. In college my girlfriend gave me a copy of T.S. Eliot's collected poems. Till then, I had thought of Eliot as dauntingly academic and just about impenetrable. But owning the book led me to read around in it, and before long I was memorizing long passages and looking for Eliot's Selected Essays. The gift changed my life.

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