once upon a time, in the grand excavation of tome, you could actually, put something of(f) yourself on a shelf, and be allowed the dignity of: commentary in the posthumous realm of: the discovery of ideas; can someone even comprehend being stuffed... by the current taxidermy of the comment sections? came the comment sections, taxidermy & claustrophobia... please: no attention ******* here... the most addictive aspect of listening to a radio station? you can't rewind, repeat... all and any song... some say: there are all the positives of the audience being able to interact with the byproduct of the person... but it byproduct rarely enjoys a per se status... given that the person behind the byproduct is always invoked... like a demon with a bad elocution of a spell... books do not understand likes, dislikes... comment sections: recommendations? sure... this whole, modern taxidermy of the comment sections... you'd start thinking that alcoholics anonymous was bad... wait until anonymity anonymous comes about... i just find it horrid, that any book i own, could also have a comments section attached to it, without, say, a mediator, akin to an english teacher, the agora of a high school classroom... and... nothing of the sort of cluster-**** of random commentary... with nothing the sort of a signity of: handwritting, a postage stamp, an envelope... not even a d.m., but... a morbid caucus of... nothing short of raucous boat trip over the Styx... where, eventually... half the people wouldn't even make it to Hades, instead: drowning in that thick splotch of the mongrel-souls cast into the waters of Styx: purgatory.