The almond and the apple and the sugar from the maple

[sovay]

Some days you go into a used book store and you do not leave with anything, which is fine.

And some days you go into a used book store and you leave with the first full English translation of Sholem Aleichem's Wandering Stars (1909), a pocket edition of H.D.'s Kora and Ka with Mira-Mare (1934), a new trade paperback of Theodore Sturgeon's Some of Your Blood (1961), and the Complete Plays of Sarah Kane (2001), which you were just discussing on Friday halfway up a mountain with schreibergasse's brother.

The latter is to be preferred.

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[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Wow! Where was this hoard of serendipity?

Nine

[sovay]

Where was this hoard of serendipity?

Mostly divided between Raven and the Harvard Book Store.

[gwynnega]

Books!!

That is most excellent.

[sovay]

That is most excellent.

I hadn't even been particularly looking for anything. Of course that's when they turn up.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

That's a haul.

[sovay]

That's a haul.

It got ridiculous. I found a limited edition of something called Oh! A Mystery of Mono no Aware with rice-paper pages and full-color illustrations. I found novelizations of The Piano and The Wicker Man written by the original screenwriters (Jane Campion, Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer). I hadn't even known those existed!

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

My budget would not have survived.

[sovay]

My budget would not have survived.

If any of those three are still in the store the next time I am, I'll get them for you.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Thank you!
(I still have a couple of books for you from a while back, I just fail bitterly at bringing them to Readercon. Clearly, I need to come up and visit.)

[sovay]

Clearly, I need to come up and visit.

I could deal with that.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm delighted to hear of this.

I started to write that in the wrong language. I wish I'd been able to take Ancient Greek in a fashion that would've involved me successfully learning the language, so I'd be able to say it to you in the same. I actually was talking about Homer with someone today, briefly, which made me think of you.

[sovay]

I actually was talking about Homer with someone today, briefly, which made me think of you.

Thank you.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

This may be a stupid question, but is Sarah's work much known in the US?

[sovay]

This may be a stupid question, but is Sarah's work much known in the US?

I don't think so. According to Dan (who is a dramaturge and director), Blasted wasn't even performed here until a few years ago; there was a staging of Phaedra's Love at Yale in 2005, but I don't know what that means for professional productions. 4.48 Psychosis seems to be the one everyone's heard of. The jumping-off point for Friday's conversation was my complaint that I couldn't find her collected plays in this country.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

After which, it was animated conversation for a mile between the two of them, while I walked along boggling at Kane's stage directions.

[sovay]

After which, it was animated conversation for a mile between the two of them, while I walked along boggling at Kane's stage directions.

"The rats carry Carl's feet away."

[ericmvan.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the friend who found The Tree if Life: A Phylogenetic Classification at half price.

[sovay]

Not to mention the friend who found The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification at half price.

And who sends you cladistic e-mails.