This is my view every Saturday. As an aficionado of 'shelfies', it's not a bad outlook.
I try to sit somewhere different each week, so that I don't become one of those people who have their own spot. Deadens the thinking, having the same perspective all the time. Did you know this is why we instinctively tilt our heads when we're curious? Animals do this too. It's to get a slightly different view.
This weekend I can take a journey through time, just by scanning the shelves opposite. I can start with the fabulously titled Feeble Mindedness and Mental Deficiency. On through Outwitting Our Nerves to the Psychotherapy section. Scan past Freud, Kinsey, Shere Hite and Why Is Sex Fun? then before you know it, I'm straight into Psychosexual Problems, Perversion and The Pathology And Treatment of Sexual Deviation. After that we segue into depression and suicide.
Pretty miserable stuff - and fortunately not my own topics of research. Sure I'd much be rather be having sex on a rainy Saturday afternoon than working in the library, but you can't always get what you want, right?
Well...
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