Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Common Way
One very curious thing about people who are thus packed away - just as nu appreciated wedding-presents are packed away because there is a certain senti ment about them; or inartistic portraits of plain ancestors, that human decency will not destroy; or Shabby Bibles, which superstition preserves behind rows of smart, new books - the human creatures who are shelved, because sentiment or decency or superstition will not permit their destruction, these useless persons do not always know that they are on the Shelf. They still presume - me still pre sume (let us suppose that we have reach ed at least the beginning of the'shelf age!)
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