The typical question of who get into a house where there are books in a quantity that clearly seems exorbitant to visitors (and many fear for this to be around ten, excluding the lists of the phone), it is invariably " ... How many books did you read all? . Would be a spontaneous response to Pepe Carvalho, ( No, I use them to light the fireplace "), except that there is a risk of being believed. What kind of question is that? Evidently, the daughter of a subculture in which the book is considered a decorative object, selected by size and height, the color of the cover that makes pendant with good upholstery of the sofa, or fill bookstores fake in front of which to be photographed interview or, if you're famous ... Questions for people who do not know what it is really a book. Of course, I do not I read all the books I have. But some are there, waiting to be their moment, and meanwhile we are. Others may have been purchased in periods of interest in a subject which then came less, and were only browsed, but they are there too ... And then there are books that should not be read but to be seen, should be consulted, to be popular even without ever reading them entirely. It should not be less than the others, for sure. I think the best answer to this question has given the irritating Hugo Pratt, who in his last house in Switzerland, had thousands and thousands of volumes. " has read them all? " "No. But I've paths all." And this is perhaps the best compliment for a book ...
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