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Are you a hoarder?

The LRB Podcast

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Is There More or Less Stuff on My Desk?

I definitely have inherited my dad's fondness for kind of strange knickknacks looking around me now I can still see some of the things I mentioned in the introduction. But they're all a bit neatly arranged and I think that's partly perhaps the difference between a hoarder and a non-horder at least as I see it would be that for anon-horder the things you have need to be present to the senses in some way perhaps. A hoarder is very happy or my dad's very happy to have stuff that he knows is there somewhere in a box at the back of a room and the memory of it is almost enough to sustain him. There's an element

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