Apparently Elizabethans used to keep their books in chests which could
double as extra seating. Or somewhere to hide all those bodies from a
revenger's tragedy.
On 24 June 2010 18:53, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ah yes, i know it well....
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> Doug
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> On 24-Jun-10, at 6:20 AM, John Cunningham wrote:
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> but am beginning to run out of room for boxes.
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> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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> because I want to die
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> writing Haiku
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> or, better,
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> long lines, clean and syllabic as knotted bamboo. Yes!
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> Phyllis Webb
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