Reply To: Let’s talk collections and listening habits!
Yes, great posts. Thanks Nick! I know the Umberto Eco quote, “but” (in “inverted commas”) I think it’s only applicable to people who live in libraries, or music stores, or toolsheds, or sweets factories. Yes, we now have “virtually” (in “inverted commas”) everything at our fingertips… but – and this is just my personal feeling – I don’t want and I don’t need access to it all. It’s too overwhelming. I haven’t heard a tenth of those Brahms pieces you didn’t mention, and I can’t find it in my head to make room for all of them, or all drill “bits” (as they are apparently really called), or all decaffeinated new sugar-free Licorice Buggaboos. This may be moving onto a different area, but as what’s left of my life becomes “increasingly shorter”, I’m feeling the need to let go of everything, to become more austere, living on my memories, especially of that time in 1982 when I shared a cheese sandwich with Ingmar Bergman in his kitchen. He had no books or music players. Just a table and two chairs.