Today I went to 2 second hand book stores, I was hunting for some classic literature and maybe something interesting, I found many interesting things, a collection of "the winds of fire" many historical works that had definitely seen better days, many books, clothbound and leatherbound, that carried legacies of many authors, and by many I mean MANY others, among the horde of second hand books and old pieces of literature, I found a very interesting German book, it was titled "Shere Hite, Frauen und Liebe" now from all the German I knew, Liebe meant love and that's it...... It wasn't very expensive but it was a very thick book so I took a picture...... One quick Google search later I realized I'd found a gem, a work about female sexuality by an author who received so much backlash that she ended up giving up her US citizenship to live in Europe. Ironic isn't It? So much criticism from the American press and crazy backlash from the public, in the 1970s too, all that just for an 18 year old boy to find it outside a second. Hand book store, being sold for roughly 3 US dollars.
I'm going to say something I don't often say, I was wrong to think people are forgotten after death, sure "when a man dies, a library burns to the ground" but perhaps some pages remain resistant to the flames and continue existing forevermore. What I've learned today is..... I must write a book before I die...... Something important enough to immortalize my name.
