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'Trophies', 'medals', maybe, but that isn't how I relate to the books I keep. At least I don't think so. A trophy reminds you of an achievement but when I look at my favourite books on a shelf, it's more like I'm thanking them for the impact they had on me, rather than for something I'd done. I don't congratulate myself for reading Blood Brothers, I congratulate Richard Price for writing it. But why I need to physically own that book in order to do so, that's what I'm not sure about. Maybe it is a fetish object, but a fetish for what?
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