The gift: Imagination and the erotic life of property

Abandoned, p.240. I really loved the first three chapters; it then got progressively more tedious, then pompous, and I have other books in need of reading. I'm sorry. I really wanted to love this whole book.

I'm going to keep it, though, and one day reread just the beginning, and try to preserve that in my mind without the unpleasant aftertaste of women-as-property, usury, Whitman, and constant references to judeochristian bullshit.

To Roy