[lbo-talk] (In)conspicuous consumption?

[John Adams]

On Dec 22, 2007, at 10:04 PM, Alan E. DeBakey wrote:

> "Simple" desire to get your hands, for example, on some hand-written 
> Bach scores?
>
>   I don't get it. Do you hope  listening to Bach while holding such a 
> thing in your possession would make his music, the music, sound 
> differently? Feel differently?

I can't explain it myself, but when I pull out the cheap paperback book 
once owned by one of my favorite writers and look at his signature in 
the front, I feel close to him.

No, it's not rational, and neither am I, necessarily,

	John A