{"id":2288,"date":"2010-08-19T15:09:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T13:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2010-08-19T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T13:10:15","slug":"excentricos-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexhernandez.es\/en\/2010\/08\/19\/excentricos-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Eccentrics I"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Don’t be misled by the title. Even though I talked of empathy<\/a> yesterday, I don’t intend to write today about the opposite, curiosity. I’m going to tell you about real-life eccentrics that have nothing to do with creative writing but they do with books – and we have a laugh, what the heck, after all it’s summer, at least in this hemisphere – if you can call that thing outside my German window “summer”.<\/p>\n

The point is, eBay offers the possibility to bid on J. D. Salinger’s toilet. Seriously. Beware mysophobics: this article is intended for real mythomaniacs, as it comes -quote- “uncleaned” -unqoute-. So if you have a million dollars and you don’t know what to do with it, you can donate it to the workshop<\/a> or -almost literally- throw it down the toilet<\/a>, whatever you see fit.<\/p>\n

But while you think about what to do with your money, others have already decided what to do with their books – though I’ll tell you that tomorrow.<\/p>\n

And you, what memorabilia from selected authors do you treasure? Personally, the weirdest thing I remember doing was after the death of Frank McCourt, whom I had not read yet. As soon as I read about his demise, I decided to buy Angela’s Ashes<\/em>, and it turned out that a seller on Amazon<\/a> was selling an autographed copy for very little, so I got it before it revalued. By the way, I loved the book. But apart from a few signed copies, I don’t think I own anything too strange. Do you?<\/p>\n

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Don’t be misled by the title. Even though I talked of empathy yesterday, I don’t intend to write today about the opposite, curiosity. I’m going to tell you about real-life eccentrics that have nothing to do with creative writing but they do with books – and we have a laugh, what the heck, after all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taller-literario","tag-humor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t