Oh damn, still in this dream.

About to download it tonight....looking forward to hearing it too. Many thanks m'dear.

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Nice shelves. Our house is full of double-stacked bookshelves. I'd love some that can go triple deep. I can't imagine a bookless life. I could imagine, however, more time to read.

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Well I've been building a library since I was twelve: it is my hinterland: but I wonder if I can move on from there, because it's also an anchor, a dead weight....ballast. My library is one of the reasons I'm not more mobile. (The Mother is the other one , but it's not quite fair to bring her into the equation.)
I'm buying fewer books these days, and reading less. Wiki and Google between 'em provide me with comprehensive and accurate data. Sifting through modern novels to find which are worthwhile can prove boring. And to be candid even keeping a journal is more fun, as are all forms of writing. Perhaps I'm just getting old and more self-centred: though I don't actually regard that as feasible.

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i like the way there are nice plain boxes on the top. most feng shui.
i have gone bookless, but only because my career is over and the books were nagging me with spite. it is nice and tidy, but i am buying two of these

one to go in the sitting room with what remains of books, object based music, photos, etc, one for the bedroom, where i intend to be able to see my clothes LIKE IN A SHOP!!!!

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I found it in the old Rex Cinema in Cambridge before it was demolished. (I squatted in St Luke's street nearby.) Kept it for years. Had it full of books.

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i will have a self like that, or even a shelf!

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shelf indeed.

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The boxes are full of ten years worth of TLS's and Private Eyes. I can see an e-bay sale ahead.

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aaargh! i wish you hadn't told me that!

although, it could be worse, they could be out, marauding dustily somewhere...

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I am distracted from the bookshleves by the cute little rocker.

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I'm a guitarist and we don't do the 'Porch' thing in London, but I can still have a rocker.....It's not the Mississippi Delta but whatthehellarchie. Mind you, the chair's arms do get in the way a bit.

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Ah, guitar and rockin' chair. Now all we are missing is the crossroads.

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I do hear that one can go down there and cut a deal.

I'd like to speak to the complaints department....in the strongest terms.

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Papa Legba don' got no 'plaints depottment, boy.

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Ah...voodoo....
Well in that case a class action: none of these players are unionised. Thay don't do the practise, they don't do any of the hard work, they just sign on the dotted line. Time to do something about this.

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'they' perhaps.

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My Rabbi typically suggests prayer and fasting, rather than legal redress.

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Ah, well I don't ask my priests for advice, though for a Protestant Christian, the Jewish antecedent thing is pretty impressive.

Dad, despite being a quarter Indian, had that streak of Old Fashioned English Public School cultural antisemitism, which typically expressed itself in language: "Oh he's a Jew-boy and therefore rich" was the one that did it for Mike and me. My brother and I took it upon ourselves to do something about it, and confronted him about his language. This was sometime in the 70's.

The old man examined his conscience and never (to the best of my knowledge) ever even casually used language that could be regarded as offensive. He had good Jewish chums too. And he really was saintly. He hoped I would marry my Jewish girlfriend (yes there was one) so it wasn't....
Erk. There is no-one without fault. Or if there is, I haven't met 'em yet.

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I personally believe that there is, in fact, a worldwide Zionist banking cabal. And I am still hoping to gain admittance to same. If I can successfully combine that achievement with my rightful election as the second Jewish Pope, then I will finally be able to usher in the Novus Ordo I've been planning since my bar mitzvah.

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And I am still hoping to gain admittance to same.

Try and get me a seat on it too, if poss.

I have a very simple modus operandi/vivendi.

Try and think good thoughts.
Try and do good things.
Have a bloody good laugh along the way.

Simple man really.

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Why is it that I am apparently capable of imagining you singing these words and picking out a little tune to go along with them -- even though I've never actually heard you do either? :)

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Well, they may be better lyrics than my last effort the chorus of which ran: 'Whereof one cannot speak....'.

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Maybe you didnt' sing it clearly enough and they thought you were singing "Werewolf on Canute's peak." But then they should have laughed anyway.

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He was a silly Cnut really, but I always thought it was a shore, not a peak. Also I got someone else to sing. I have a good voice for poetry.

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Like I have a face for radio.

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