i am currently lusting after nine leather bound volumes of EPISTEMOLOGY(see below) sitting on the top shelf of book lovers used book store on rainbow and cheyenne.

the corpulent book nazi that runs the place tells me that they were bought from an estate sale, and continues stacking harlequinn novels on the floor as i compulsively touch them and smell them and lovingly return each one to his brothers.

i know they're worth far much more than the $30.00 she's penciled in on the top corner of the title pages; but i still can't seem to scheme up a way i can buy them all at once.

it reminds me of a disturbing poster jayc pointed out to me the other day. two orphans, wide eyes and arms around each other, and the caption "they said it would increase our chances of being adopted if we didn't come as a pair. we'll take our chances."

do i buy one at a time? do i buy PLATO first, at the risk of losing NIETZSCHE?
i simply KANT tolerate this quandry!


EPISTEMOLOGY: the theory of knowledge