Who has time to read, Dave?
On 5-May-10, at 12:29 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> This from memory is a list of *some* of the books being given away
> by a
> local college library yesterday. There were multiple copies of each
> and they
> were in good condition. The reason was nobody takes them out anymore:
>
> Middlemarch; Nineteen Eighty-four; The Woodlanders; British Poetry
> since
> 1945 (ed. Lucie-Smith); The Oxford Anthology of English Literature:
> The
> Renaissance (ed. Kermode & Hollander); War and Peace (2 vols.
> Penguin); The
> Brothes Karamazov (2 vols, ditto); The Portrait of a Lady; Typee;
> Howards
> End; Portait of the Artist as a Young Man; Dubliners; Cider with
> Rosie; Look
> Back in Anger; Waiting for Godot; John Arden Three Plays; The
> Caretaker; A
> Book of English Poetry (ed. G.B.Harrison. Penguin).
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
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>
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I was immediately set upon by two or three
critics, who hurled sophistries and
maledictions at me that were astonishing
in their dimness.
Jorge Luis Borges
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