I always manage to find a copy of "The Wind in the Willows" and if left
alone I will read the whole of the first two chapters and be young again and
picnic with Moley and Ratty on the river bank.
I also found and purchased a first edition of " Pippa Passes" and
discovered Gerard Manley Hopkins in a bookshop like that and sat there
bewildered that I had got to be 35 and never even heard of him before.
Bewildered and angry that no teacher I had ever had had mentioned him even
in passing. I wanted to go out and stop everyone in the streets and tell
them what I had discovered.
Ah! second hand bookshops! they rescue, preserve and quietly promulgate our
culture.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary B" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: The Reason I Have Credit
> We have a similar store in halifax Piece hall.
> I enter and cannot leave books up to the sky.
>
> Arthur, I love them. They are full of treasures a far number which I know
> have stacked in the bedroom to read. I search them for old high school
lit
> books, the best way to get 19th century poetry like Noyes, Kipling and
> Longfellow.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gary
>
> Tina March guest and Gar tells tales at:
> http://gardawg.homestead.com/gardawg.html
>
> Poets for Peace. ˇPoemas sí, balas no!
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