okay, this is cool.

so, i discovered this morning that, on amazon.com, you can buy the The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection for just shy of $8,000. it's 1,802 (or 1,082, depending on which figure in the listing is a typo) books and weighs 700 pounds. despite my liberal anti-materialistic guilt, i think that's freaking cool. if i ever get the point financially where i have $8,000 to spare (HA!), purchasing this collection will be my first priority. i will then retire immediately, start reading Adam Bede and refuse to die until i've finished Zazie on the Metro.