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Atomic Library Numbers
The circulation card in this old discarded copy informs me that the author’s initials expand to “Edward Estlin” which none of the paratext shows in this 1965 Harvest Book edition of a selection from the poetry of e.e. cummings. In … Continue reading
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Three Business Cards (Redux)
Reading the ephemera. As their business gets more complicated (more stores; more products), their business cards become simplified. As befits the era of search engines combing the World Wide Web, the URL is no longer inscribed. Indeed the oldest card … Continue reading
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Three Business Cards
ecosystem diversity second-hand book trade http://www.shesaidboom.ca/ https://twitter.com/shesaidboom http://www.sellersandnewel.com/ http://www.monkeyspaw.com/ different naming strategies: one after a short-story, one after song lyrics*, one after Peter Sellers and David Newel who run the shop** *It came from the first song from the second … Continue reading
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Surplus Surplus
From the collector of definitions. Flâneur: dandy, stroller, person at ease in a kaleidoscope of turns. From the philosopher-poet. In the paradise of ceaseless commerce and consumption, where nothing can ever be lacking, some things are nonetheless impossible to find. … Continue reading
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End of Day Music
I haven’t heard this combo since Subject: Feedback: CBC Radio Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 01:43:24 -0400 (EDT) To: cbcinput@toronto.cbc.ca I want to thank David Wisdom for the selection of music that concluded an intense day of listening to media … Continue reading
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Little Billboards
Over the years, I have changed the signature block on email messages. They often contain a witty saying and a url. Here is one from the close of the last century, anticipating an active century to come Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large … Continue reading
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Index Card Passport
In green ink on an index card From The New Yorker Oct 6, 2003 p. 31 in the Auctions and Antiques section Art Deco posters of Paul Colin, whose works appear as part of a show of French Art Deco … Continue reading
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A Vos Souhaits
On the Ides of March, perfect to document a very old joke. Julius Sneezer: “Etchoo, Brute?” This image reminds me of the line drawing illustrations in old Latin readers. It is from a coaster that I found. It may have … Continue reading
From Framework to Frame
Amusing anecdote. Jonathan Warren. “The Lessons of the Living Dead: Marcel’s Journey from Balbec to Douville-Féterne in Proust’s Cities of the Plain: Part Two”. Studies in 20th Century Literature Volume 19, Number 2, Summer 1995. Note 5 I am grateful … Continue reading
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Ripples
from the Sixth Walk… Then the rippling of fibres converted themselves again to foliage, as all speech converts itself to foliage in the night, and I felt this rippling simultaneously all over my skin. It was not necessary to differentiate … Continue reading