tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2717575937435064970.post6072629672824683094..comments2023-09-23T11:35:41.025-04:00Comments on Silver Linings on cloudy days: "...ageing pages, a slower time"Chandreyeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04630831559826829910noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2717575937435064970.post-16166599274325239802015-09-04T09:34:16.027-04:002015-09-04T09:34:16.027-04:00Glad I wasn't the only one to use those dastar...Glad I wasn't the only one to use those dastardly ploys. :-) <br /><br />We should write more about the pleasures of used books too.There's an ancient Agatha Christie novel on my bedside that I can never read past page 7 because those first few pages are full of blue biro footnotes....word definitions in Italian! I keep getting lost in the imagined life of that reader who translated 'greens' (meaning vegetable side dish in that context) as 'verde'....how it must have skewed the meaning of that sentence as they tried to parse out meaning. I wonder if they gave up on page 7 and whether they ever tried to read in English again. In a Flash Fiction group I used to run, one of my writing prompts was 'a stain on page 67'. I wrote of a coffee ring that blotted out key words in an instruction manual but you should have seen how many directions the other writers took. Fascinating, no?<br />Chandreyeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04630831559826829910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2717575937435064970.post-31397951827067087872015-09-04T09:29:11.298-04:002015-09-04T09:29:11.298-04:00Polkadot: the stalls there were pretty diverse tho...Polkadot: the stalls there were pretty diverse though I guess you had to know about them. I think it was mostly books though, or at least book lovers were drawn there and discovered the other wares. I'm not very familiar with College Street stalls (we lived in South cal so Gol Park was more accessible, then in college, moved to Park st so the Freeschool street stalls became familiar). Frankly, i fond College St intimidating....all the text books and political themes overshadowed any fiction that might lurk there (and that I was usually after). Did you live closer to College St? What are your 2nd hand book store memories?Chandreyeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04630831559826829910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2717575937435064970.post-88087758341858005862015-09-04T08:48:50.208-04:002015-09-04T08:48:50.208-04:00It took me back too, of course those shops were ne...It took me back too, of course those shops were newer to us old folks compared to the ones in College Square. But I shopped there too. But what was that---they sold medals and cups too? <br /><br />The tail piece is great---Oyon does spell it out.<br />Polkadot https://www.blogger.com/profile/05766004674769512736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2717575937435064970.post-89744948220490707202015-09-04T06:39:22.539-04:002015-09-04T06:39:22.539-04:00We do speak of the same strip, Chandreyee. And the...We do speak of the same strip, Chandreyee. And there's more in common there. Certainly the early, bad taste in literary choices (let's call it rite of passage, shall we?), the freedom that came with low prices, the keep-the-best-book-on-top (and the Sidney Sheldon at the very bottom, in one instance). Loved reading this!<br /><br />PS: Oyon has a wise head on his young shoulders.Piahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03933646544634162981noreply@blogger.com