Hi, my name is Jilli, and I have a problem with storage cabinets.

My parents have what is something like an apothecary cabinet / card catalog cabinet and I have called dibs on it. It's not real and it's not valuable. I just really like it. And I spent a lot of time in libraries. All that information and you could just bounce from one to the next. It was like a printed internet full of potential links to new information.

(They also have a glass double inkwell. Which I also called dibs on. Mostly I just feared they'd randomly get rid of things thinking no one cared. I grew up with us being a polling location on election days and playing with the inkwell. I want it.)

Which thread should I ask about Kindles in? This one or Tech? I'm finally thinking of getting myself one, and am not sure which I want.

Jilli! Pete's Kickstarter Project was one of their "Projects We Love"!

Holy crap! That'll teach me not to read the Kickstarter emails!

I think either one would be appropriate, Jilli! Although I think I did most of my Kindle talking in Tech.

Thanks P-C! I'll scoot over to Tech.

I started getting getting choked up when I was reading Augustus and Hazel's perfect dinner in Amsterdam.

It made me remember the first time I read a book that really gutted me and that was when I was reading The World According to Garp and I got to the part where Garp says, "I mith him."

Wait till you get to the end.

Wait till you get to the end.

I was getting choked up in preparation for the end.

Okay, I need some hivemind help. Elie Wiesel (I think!) has a quote about writing poetry that I want to reference. It's something about how poetry comes from suffering and then people tell the poet, oh, suffer again, so we can hear the exquisite sounds of your groans.

Something like that. But much better. Can anyone find it for me? My google-fu is failing.