"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?" Federico Calboli
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Lawrence's bookplate
.... free- associating here, for Pluvi: my almost accidentally acquired rebound copy of Norman Douglas's Together, from T.E.L.'s library. I picked it up in Berkeley 20 years ago for nothing; when I pointed at the plate and asked why so cheap, the clerk replied that I was the first person in five years to notice... in Berkeley! But then I also picked up a Leigh Fermor first with a dj there for $20, an early Voyage of the Beagle, and the only Linsenmaeier Insects I have ever seen for sale, all the same day...
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I was blown away the first time you showed that to me
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