Tim Splim (CC ’29) recently decided to sell some of his LitHum books back to Book Culture. “Obviously I wanted to keep the Iliad and the Odyssey,” Tim stated, “but I knew there were a bunch of books that I would never come back to.” Tim packed a box full with Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, Ibn Arabi’s Translator of Desires, and all the other books written by female and non-Western authors, and he headed down to 112th street.
“Once I had unpacked all the books, they started scanning them and I got excited thinking about how much store credit I’d get” Tim exclaimed. After the Book Culture employee finished scanning yet another copy of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, they presented Tim with a freshly used tampon and a $2 in-store gift card.
“I was really frustrated when they handed me that sopping crotch swab, but at least I have more space in my room now” said Tim. “Plus, I got two bucks!”
We at The Federalist don’t know how to read, but we commend Tim for being both economical and thoughtful.
