Compendium what a lovely bookshop/atmosphere/ my last memory the was being
asked by a fierce seven foot high amazon woman demanding 'what on earth are
doing looking at the lesbian section??!!!!'--sorry guys I ran--I always
remember one book that had a long haired sheepskin cover with a shaved patch
with the title -don't know what the book was about but what a
binding------earlier on I could afford a mag published in a seed catalogue
(catalog!)whicj had poems etc packed in it --very hippy/green/nice
cheers nostalgic Patrick (with butterflies about reading at V&A museum
tomorrow)XXX
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From: Martin John Walker <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: The Black Heralds
Arni Ibsen wrote >to that wonderful and inebriating 1970s bookstore in
Camden Town, London, called Compendium. I could have lived my life there!<
Couldn't agree more Arni ~ but Compendium only closed in the 90s, I think,
though one of the two shops on Camden High road (?) closed before that. I
know I went there up to the mid-90s at least, when I could afford to visit
England (& put up with it...) The poetry shelves were still magnificent.
Cheers
Martin
quote jobby #8
BUT IT WILL never be
understood what yesterday
was like
we improve the morning
with the rising when we
begin to sleep
the going-down no longer
belongs to us we will
wake up the way
it will end up today
and where the shadows
lay
we enter dreams
and whether dreams stand
where we
lie written who
ever reads this
Paul Wühr circa 1985
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