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Collecting
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This is true of all collecting. It extinguishes the moral instinct. The object finally possesses the possessor.
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When he was very young, Auberon had begun a collection of postmarks. On a trip with Doc to the post office in Meadowbrook, he had begun idly examining the wastebaskets, having nothing else to do, and had immediately come up with two treasures: envelopes from places that seemed fantastically distant to him, and looking remarkably crisp for having come so far.
It soon developed into a small passion, like Lily's for bird's nests. He insisted on accompanying whoever was traveling near a post office
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