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From "unabridged" to "slanguage," Madeline Kripke's library is a logophile's heaven (or hell).
  • Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    She wasn’t even that rich. Her parents appear to be academics that got lucky with some investments a long time ago, and she was a social worker and teacher at some point.

    Of all the terrible things the rich do with money, collecting a massive and very specific type of book is the least terrible. It seems like all these are heading to a library too, which is cool.

    • BioWarfarePosadist [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, we aren’t ascetic monks. We are all entitled to the small things that make us happy, as long as it doesn’t hurt those around us. This sounds like a relatively harmless hobby, and the fact that she didn’t collect to auction off the books later show that she wasn’t really looking to profit off this, and it’s being worked on to be come public property now? This is a great example of how a socialist society should treat the personal property of certain collections after the owners death.