on 26/10/05 3:43 AM, Patrick McManus at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> How do you get rid of books?? Every time I try- I end up reading something
> lost ages ago and then it's hours later (perhaps at uni you have piles of
> the same book?) a whole world of old reference books -wonderfull 1920's how
> to mend a wireless !1850's maunders treasury of knowledge
> But house is full of books -it groans
> Boy's annuals of the 1880's -atlasses showing most of the world pink!
> Etc etc
> And all the different subjects -still got the first book given to me.
> Well good to be back again
> P moulding P
Latin for Today, a textbook, looked old-fashioned in 1950 when I began my
six slow years of Latin. Where will I find a copy? I want to look at the
sketch of Mucius Scaevola holding his hand in the fiery brazier. Or was that
in another book? I need the image to illustrate a poem.
Max in Melbourne
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