I'm sorry, David, but can you please explain the concept of a library bookstore? It's a library, but it's a store? How can it be a store? I thought the whole point of a library was to bring the books back? And if it's a store, how can it be a library? I mean, you can bring the book back to the store, if you want to, but you certainly don't have to, like in a library. Then again, I guess you don't really _have_ to bring the book back to the library either. Whatever. You get what I'm saying, which is this: What the hell is a library bookstore? Wait! Is it a store IN the library? Yes. That must be it. There's no other explanation. Erin of the potable library ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Ritchie" <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:15 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Potable Literature > > > I may be right, I may be wrong, > But I'm perfectly willing to swear > That when you turn'd and smiled at me, > A flannel wrap, or someone who cared, > sang in Berk'ley Square > > > > Sorry. A bit exuberant because I've just run across two volumes by Norman > MacCaig, in perfect condition in the library bookstore, the first verse I've > ever seen there. It's a sign. Clearly I should either attack Canada, > setting all the vedics to "stun," or check the fridge for unbeatable and > unopened dead horses. > > But first, a taste of the 1956 MacCaig, "Falls of Measach" > > The wind was basins slopping over. > The river plunged into its ravine > Like coins into a stocking. The day > Was like the buzzard on the pine. > > It looked at us with eyes like resin > >From some shelf of the scaly past > And could see nothing in between, > For it knew nothing it had lost. > > But we were our continuation > And saw our graves behind us like > Waterfalls marking the stages > To some rich plunge into the dark. > > Let the wind spill one other gust > And the day like the buzzard will > Sail, and sink invisible > As a fossil in the distant hill. > > > David Ritchie > Portland, Oregon > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html