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Ask the pilot: Souvenirs from hell: The keepsakes we most treasure don't always come with a clear conscience

Something different this week. <P>There's a new book out. While it has nothing to do with <a href="http://dir.salon.com/topics/flying/">flying,</a> I can't help giving it a plug. <a href="http://www.papress.com/bookpage.tpl?isbn=1568986904">"Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects With Unexpected Significance"</a> was published last month by Princeton Architectural Press. Says the cover blurb, "This is a book about the things that inspire all of us ... Artists, writers, designers, among many others, contribute their objects and ruminations that encourage, motivate, and energize their own creativity." <P>The editors are Joshua Glenn and Carol Hayes. I've known Josh Glenn for more than 20 years, during which he has progressed from slacker Svengali to capo of the Boston literary mafia. (He was previously the creator of Hermenaut magazine and associate editor of the Boston Globe's "Ideas" section.) He knows that I travel a lot, and that I moonlight as a columnist. Apparently that made me a good candidate for inclusion. <p>...</p><img src="http://feeds.salon.com/~r/salon/tech/~4/162227230" height="1" width="1"/>

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