Library Note:
Two Down
10 October 2018

¶ Books about English history, Medieval history, and General history (including a few books about history) have been shelved in the history bookcase. Their locations have been recorded in Evernote. There is a little bit of wiggle room on each shelf. 

I have filled the rear of a third shelf with European history books. I have to pull them out again, to take note. Then I’ll do the same with the other half of the European history books, and line them up in the front.

French and American history books will go together on the next shelf down, and then histories of areas outside the West will take the bottom shelf.

Meanwhile, I am still reading Matthew Josephson’s The Robber Barons, and it is still striking the note of plus ça change… There seems to be an instinctive rapaciousness in large-scale American innovation. And why not? The American marketplace is obviously too large. There’s little to distinguish the arrogance of Rockefeller from that of Zuckerberg, except that where the former simply denied it, the latter apologizes. But nothing changes. 

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