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_refugee_  ·  3535 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what do you collect?

I like to collect fairy tales! (And some mythology, which feels contextually similar to me.)

For a long time I would actively buy any decent collection of fairy tales I could find. Eventually I realized that such anthologies are pretty limitless, as everyone can tell a fairy tale a dozen times, (the anthologies are limitless but quickly repetitive) so I guess I am more interested in collecting fairy tales from different cultures now. It has been a while since I have added to my collection.

One day I would like to own all the Andrew Lang colored fairy books. I grew up reading them. Right now I have two, pink and red I think. I could just hop on Amazon and buy them all but there is something much more satisfying to the organic collection via "chance sightings in used bookstores" than "Imma just order all this shit and then have it!"





user-inactivated  ·  3535 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ooh, if my copy of Sīrat Sayf ibn Dhī Yazan wasn't busted and ripped up and shit I'd mail it out to you. I got it from the Library of Alexandria. Loved those stories as a kid.

_refugee_  ·  3535 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Aw, man, that would've been cool.

user-inactivated  ·  3535 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'll see if I can get it fixed up at my library! Try not to get hope-lashed though.