Book Collecting

 I've had hobbies and obsessions in the past, that have faded into the background. My book collecting, for example. I wanted to have every book by every New York School poet. Of course, I do have 200 books in that collection, maybe, but it is far from complete. 

I had an idea for a novel: a man about my own age or slightly older with a "lost decade," maybe his 30s. He gradually begins to reconstruct it in his memory.  It would begin by a statement like, "I have lived so long that  there are certain periods of my life I rarely think about."