January 2010
4 posts
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you know you're a bookseller if
You can’t crack spines of paperbacks, and hold your books in a particular way to maintain spine integrity.
You find yourself appreciating the scent of paper.
Your personal library is alphabetized, or organized by genre.
You consider books to be interior decoration.
You own multiple editions of the same book, because you have to have all its iterations.
You know what Brodarting is...
Married, Jack Gilbert
poetry365:
I came back from the funeral and crawled around the apartment, crying hard, searching for my wife’s hair. For two months got them from the drain, from the vacuum cleaner, under the refrigerator, and off the clothes in the closet. But after other Japanese women came, there was no way to be sure which were hers, and I stopped. A year later, repotting Michiko’s avocado, I find ...
“In the meantime, though, I’d like to encourage the pregnant women of America to...”
– http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thehumancondition/archive/2010/01/15/until-we-have-better-science-please-shut-up-about-my-pregnancy-pinot-grigot.aspx