2nd place in Derby #204: I ♥ Books!, with 948 votes!

Because we like to think we’re pretty well read, but we don’t remember something that had a big crystal city AND a giant strawberry AND a flying dragon AND a jack o’lantern all in the same book. That’s the kind of thing a person usually notices, you know.

Of course, we could just be misunderstanding the shirt completely. Maybe that book is like a card catalog, where there’s thousands of references and a brief description of each. Maybe this shirt isn’t a representation of all the places books can take you, but instead a salute to the genius of proper filing systems, and how a little knowledge can serve as a map to a greater knowledge. Why, didn’t the brilliant David Foster Wallace prove how footnotes can be used as a literary device? And don’t we all know the things we can learn by traveling the chain from book to book, making our own interpretations along the way?

Plus can you imagine how much it would cost to have Oz and Middle-Earth in the same story? What is this, GURPS?

Wear this shirt: to add a little color to your story.

Don’t wear this shirt: while reading about vampires. It kinda kills the mood.

This shirt tells the world: “No, I don’t think I read anything on this year’s Pulitzer list, why do you ask?”

We call this color: PaperBlack Writer

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