#translated by douglas e. gerber

[ladylazrus]

this is what i mean when i say i love greek lyric poetry

[okayideas]

Book inventory

In preparation for the move to California, I’m packing up my books into boxes of appropriate size for mailing. In the course of doing this, I’ve had to figure out what books I even have and how to categorize them in a way that is useful for my purposes. The point of this categorization is that books that I am likely to want at around the same time will be in the same box, so that my dad can ship an entire pre-packed box instead of having to deal with individual books. The categorization might give some insight into the way I think about books, or it might not.

I tend to view books as a container to drink words from rather than artifacts worthy of inherent respect, so some books that are significant to me, such as the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, Dreamtigers, and The Martian Chronicles, are nonetheless not physically represented among the books I happen to have in my possession.

The list of boxes below does not include books that I am hoping to get rid of before moving.

LITERATURE I CONSIDER GREAT THAT FITS IN THIS BOX The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Richard Howard) Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco) The Waste Land and Other Writings (T.S. Eliot, introduction by Mark Karr) I Sing the Body Electric (Ray Bradbury) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (T.S. Eliot) Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Anthony Kerrigan) Collected Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley) Selected Non-Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Eliot Weinberger, multiple translators)

LITERATURE I CONSIDER GREAT THAT DOESN'T FIT IN THAT BOX [these are taller or wider books] Essential Howard the Duck volume 1 (Steve Gerber et al) The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco) Green Eggs & Ham (Dr. Seuss) Baudolino (Umberto Eco)

LITERATURE OTHER PEOPLE CONSIDER GREAT The Best American Short Stories of the Century, Expanded Edition (edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison) 1984 (George Orwell) Scattered Poems (Jack Kerouac) Opened Ground (Seamus Heaney) Pomes All Sizes (Jack Kerouac) On the Road (Jack Kerouac) Complete Tales & Poems (Edgar Allan Poe, published by Vintage Books, no editor credit)

HISTORY AND MYTHOGRAPHY Tolkein: a Look Behind the Lord of the Rings (Lin Carter) The Odyssey (Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu) The Rise and Fall of an American Army (Shelby L. Stanton) The Inferno (Dante, translated by John Ciardi) Born on the Fourth of July (Ron Kovic) Hoaxes (Curtis D. MacDougall) The Epic of Gilgamesh (translated by Andrew George) Early Irish Myths and Sagas (translated by Jeffrey Gantz) Orson Welles (Barbara Leaming) Social Things (Charles Lemert) Irish Catholic Genesis of Lowell (apparently George Francis O'Dwyer, uncredited)

COFFEE TABLE BOOKS The Daily Show with John Stewart Presents America Six by Seuss: a Treasury of Dr. Seuss Classics Cult Science Fiction Films (Welch Everman) The Onion Ad Nauseam: Fanfare for the Area Man The Great Modern Poets; the Best Poetry of Our Times (edited by Michael Schmidt)

JOHN HODGMAN, NEV FOUNTAIN, DOUGLAS ADAMS, AND DOUGLAS ADAMS SPIN-OFFS Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: a Novel by Terry Jones Cursed Among Sequels (Fountain) Geek Tragedy (Fountain) DVD Extras Include: Murder (Fountain) Last Change to See (Adams and Mark Carwardine) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Adams) The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Adams) The Deeper Meaning of Liff (Adams and John Lloyd) The Salmon of Doubt (Adams) Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion (Neil Gaiman) The Areas of My Expertise (Hodgman)

FRITZ LEIBER, TERRY PRATCHETT, AND DOCTOR WHO UNIVERSE Swords and Deviltry (Leiber) Swords Against Death (Leiber) Swords in the Mist (Leiber) Swords Against Wizardry (Leiber) The Book of Fritz Leiber Carpe Jugulum (Pratchett) Wyrd Sisters (Pratchett) Witches Abroad (Pratchett) The Monsters Inside (Stephen Cole) Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks (Terrance Dicks) Doctor Who and the Masque of Mandragora (Philip Hinchcliffe) Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World (Ian Marter) Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders (Terrance Dicks) Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript (Justin Richards) The City of the Dead (Lloyd Rose) Anachrophobia (Jonathan Morris) Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld (Stephen Cole)

ARTHUR C. CLARKE, FRED SABERHAGEN, ROBERT SHECKLEY, AND JACK VANCE The Laertian Gamble (credited to Sheckley, I suspect some ghost writing) Bill the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains (Harry Harrison and Sheckley) The Frankenstein Papers (Saberhagen) Berserker (Saberhagen) Dimension of Miracles (Sheckley) Godshome (Sheckley) The Journey of Joenes (Sheckley) Tales from the White Hart (Clarke) Showboat World (Vance) Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming (Roger Zelazny and Sheckley) Trips in Time (anthology, one story is by Sheckley and another by Fritz Leiber) Tales of the Dying Earth (Vance) The Lost Swords: Endgame (Saberhagen)

PAUL MAGRS (books in this box are by Paul Magrs unless otherwise noted) Wildthyme on Top (anthology, Magrs edited) Never the Bride Wildthyme Beyond! More Short Trips (anthology, only one story is by Magrs) Mad Dogs and Englishmen From Wildthyme with Love Sick Building The Scarlet Empress The Blue Angel Verdigris Short Trips (anthology, only one story is by Magrs) Enter Wildthyme

SPIKE MILLIGAN, GARRISON KEILLOR, AND SHEL SILVERSTEIN The Bible: the Old Testament According To Spike Milligan Milligan's War: The Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan Falling Up (Silverstein) Leaving Home (Keillor) Wobegon Boy (Keillor) Puckoon (Milligan)

POETRY BOOKS THAT SEEM TO MEET THE USPS MEDIA MAIL DEFINITION OF BOOKS Yesterday Won't Goodbye (Brian Ellis) A Light Bulb Symphony (Phil Kaye) I Wish That My Room Had a Floor (Rafael Woolf) Spiking the Sucker Punch (Robbie Q. Telfer) The Diesel Powered Rag Doll (David Doc Luben) Atomic Romances, Molecular Dances (Mala L. Radhakrishnan) Almost a Remembrance (Jack McCarthy) The Sparrow Ghost Colective Anthology of Poetry: Volume I What is the City? (Paul Marion) The Rectangle: Journal of Sigma Tau Delta, Volume 81, 2006 Quantum Entanglement (Melissa Newman-Evans) I No Longer Believe in the Sun: Love Letters to Katie Couric (Derek Fenner) Sparking Memories: The Alzheimer's Poetry Project Anthology (edited by Gary Mex Glazner) Boston Poetry Slam: 20 Years at the Cantab Lounge (edited by Adam Stone) The Offering, 2006 (UMass Lowell Literary Society) The Offering, 2008 (UMass Lowell Literary Society)

THOSE 5.5-BY-8.5-INCH CHAPBOOKS WHICH I WOULD FEEL PARTICULARLY BAD ABOUT LOSING (not going to catalog them tonight)

OTHER CHAPBOOKS AND ODDLY-FORMATTED POETRY PRODUCTS (not going to catalog them tonight)

SHEET MUSIC (not worth cataloguing in depth)