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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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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Today was a classic Bad Knee Day and after doing a supermarket shop for, among other pressing things, tonic water to cushion the prophylactic gin, I…
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Spent the last two days ereading books and doing nothing else. Yesterday was prime rainy season weather- not hot but muggy and humid and grey and…
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