That my "creative writing" books must have written preferably like two thousand years ago, in Latin, but mostly in Greek, that there is relatively little prose among them, even less novels, being mostly in verse (because there are plenty of unintelligible rows of short lines on their pages) and, in any case, they seem to have been chosen, not so much for the language or the era, as for a reason not easily grasped by the uninitiated

; and that I also like to keep a (comparatively) few selected monographies of technical literature concerning linguistics (grammars), philosophy and rhetoric (basically metrics), compilations of science formulas, as well as some encyclopedic volumes about the basics of science... then also some spare very technical literature that I may end scanning, and adding to my electronic library, which is a little more varied, but which contains very little "creative" literature.