Took a bunch of Tanizaki and Kawabata translations to BMV last week. They train their guys to sneer at whatever comes in, I swear it. This guy flipped through all the books, dropping the ones whose spines were cracked (not that I'd noticed) and unearthing three random bookmarks and a set of dateless Canadian stamps. So yeah, six dollars in cash and four dollars in stamps. Not to be sneezed at.
The minor fall, the-- minor lift
Took a bunch of Tanizaki and Kawabata translations to BMV last week. They train their guys to sneer at whatever comes in, I swear it. This guy flipped through all the books, dropping the ones whose spines were cracked (not that I'd noticed) and unearthing three random bookmarks and a set of dateless Canadian stamps. So yeah, six dollars in cash and four dollars in stamps. Not to be sneezed at.
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You know, I don't think I've ever seen a copy of Yoshitoshi's Sotoba no Komachi for sale and I probably wouldn't have bought it in my giddy thirties…
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Kept waking last night because knee was panging-- my 'good' knee, which is distressing. Of course it did that before, but that was thirty pounds ago.…
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As ever, a crossword clue took me to Keats Ode to a Nightingale, which I'd somehow managed never to read even as I see it quoted all over the…
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