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Consumption and the Antilibrary
Umberto Echo had a famously large library of 30,000 books most of which he knew he’d never read. When asked about his huge library he’d correct people calling it his antilibrary, a resource for all the things he didn’t know. It wasn’t about showing off all the books he had read, because he already had the knowledge from those books. It wasn’t abo
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