That kind of “escapism” seems to them to be dangerously untemporary, even though the reader must still return through the portal that is the book.

He hopped a train to California.

I could beatmix if I could be bothered, but frankly what's the point?

There's nothing wrong with having a junk drawer. Where else can you store those odds and ends you need from time to time. But some of what ends up in the junk drawer really is junk, such as unfixable items, pens that don't work, expired coupons, and a piece to a game you sold at a garage sale five years ago.