Does your record player still have a broken needle?

[sovay]

It's bad enough that I just looked at a calendar to check my age—which for obvious reasons it didn't tell me—but the fact that it occurred in the middle of discussing what turned out to be thirty-seven years of affinity for the character of Schmendrick the Magician just feels overloaded.

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[nineweaving]

My dear BBW gave me my old Ballantine copy, dated "Almost the first day of spring, 1973." I was 21, also a good age to encounter Beagle.

Nine

[sovay]

My dear BBW gave me my old Ballantine copy, dated "Almost the first day of spring, 1973." I was 21, also a good age to encounter Beagle.

Nice! If the Ballantine copy was this one, it's the edition I own, although not I believe the edition I read first, which came from the Cambridge Public Library.

[nineweaving]

That's the one!

Nine