sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2010-08-31 07:39 pm

The almond and the apple and the sugar from the maple

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 [livejournal.com profile] schreibergasse's brother.

The latter is to be preferred.

[identity profile] schreibergasse.livejournal.com 2010-09-01 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
After which, it was animated conversation for a mile between the two of them, while I walked along boggling at Kane's stage directions.