Word: unreadability
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...STUDENT, who has no fixed place of residence, soon learns what a burden erudition is. Obligated, several times a year, to transport his entire library from one apartment to another, he develops the habit of regarding it as an object, like furniture, to be packed up, unused and unread, each summer. When autumn arrives, the volumes are unveiled again, examined, and placed on the shelves...
Others, which remain unread, serve a less concrete, though no less estimatble purpose: the well-known two-volume translation of La Recherche du Temps Perdu, issued in 1934, has been on my parents' shelves since is was published. When I reached an age where it was intolerable not to have read Proust, I appropriated this edition, and installed it in a place of prominence on my own shelves. There it was to reside until shame prompted me to take up this voluminious chore. On opening volume I. I discovered that the pages were uncut...
...past 15 years, something called suicidology has flourished in the U.S. as never before. Many good studies and much bad prose have resulted. Since 1957, for instance, more than 1,200 books on suicide have appeared. Most of them are technical, widely unread, prepared by (and for) sociologists, psychologists and suicidologists working in the 300 suicide-prevention centers now operating round the country. This spring, however, along with a flow of popular articles and television shows on self-destruction, a number of books have been published, all more or less aimed at the general public. Suicide, in fact, seems about...
...fellow members of the Class of 1972 worked for 180 an hour and expenses during John Gilligan's Ohio gubernatorial primary campaign. The three worked hard, polled diligently and filed a 2,000-page report of the findings that because of its ponderous volume probably and properly went unread...
True, in another and better world, where homosexuality would go uncensured and unnoticed, Maurice would be little more than sentimental tripe. But in our world, the sentiment achieves an ironic edge, and the fond and gentle narrative counterpoints the absurd prejudices which kept the novel so long unread...