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#the other main book in consideration was my book that collects essays and poems and extracts from chesterton's work
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#according to my weird dream last night#yet another in the growing genre of 'your home will be destroyed within hours so you need to take what you need and get out'#'yet somehow this destruction takes much longer than promised so it's this whole drawn-out process'#if i were faced with having to choose only a few of my books to take with me#the number one on the list would be regina doman's fairy tale novels#because they are central enough to my identity to feel necessary#and would be more difficult to replace#the other books i own fell into the category of 'i don't really care enough about them to mind not having them around'#(which mostly applies to the ones i haven't read yet)#or 'these are important but it would be extremely easy to find other used copies if necessary'#the other main book in consideration was my book that collects essays and poems and extracts from chesterton's work#for much the same reason--if i don't have this copy there's not much chance of finding a replacement#except even moreso in this case because if i had to i *could* buy full-price new copies of the ftn#but i wouldn't even know how to go about googling the chesterton book#there was an undefined understanding that i also planned to take books from my religious shelf but the dream hadn't gotten that far yet#if i had to guess my instinct says i'd go for my bible and theology of the body first#anyway it was a surprising bit of insight into my literary personality that came in a very odd way#and i'm kind of curious what books would be at the top of other people's 'rescue first in an emergency' list
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