[BITList] WTF?

[HUGH]

Re this ****ing idiocy about where to put books on shelves, I had a look at 
my own shelves, all 8, wall to wall, and this places me in a quandary.  If I 
shift ISLAM, by Alfred Guillaume, up to the top, should it be to the left 
among Science Fiction, or to the far right among assorted thrillers, all 
paperbacks, or in the middle with miscellaneous paperbacks beside the BI 
beer mug and the empty Sapporo beer can?  And should I promote the late 
Idries Shah's TALES OF THE DERVISHES and other volumes along with the other? 
(Shah would die laughing if he were still alive.) What about ZEN FLESH, ZEN 
BONES, and THE WAY OF ZEN, not to mention a slim volume on Buddhism I 
acquired along the way, plus something left behind by the last Mormon 
missionaries who tried to convert me?  In what order should these be placed? 
My great gran's family Bible is too big for the shelves, so it sits on the 
floor (I await a visit from the thought police in this connection), but we 
have an assortment of smaller Bibles of various translations, also hymn 
books.  Life is hard, and getting harder all the time.

I've got a solution.  If Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Atheists, 7th Day 
Adventists, Muslims, Shintoists, etc, etc (in no particular order, I hasten 
to point out), want to to read their holy books, they should go out and buy 
them.  If libraries insist on stocking them, they should be in reserved 
stock, available on request at the desk. Anyone who tries to extend the 
nonsense to reserved stock books should be place in a pillory and subjected 
to loud and derisive laughter.

Hugh.