I spent me pay like a bloody fool

[sovay]

So while I punted the first of my afternoon commitments, which was my cousins' letter-writing party, I did make it to the second, which was a picnic on Cambridge Common with the once and future Anarchist Society of Shakespeareans, and I had a much better time than I was expecting with the conversations ranging from children's books to family histories to competitive hospital stories (the other person won), and I admit that I bought the small neat teal-green Penguin edition of William Dampier's Piracy, Turtles & Flying Foxes (1697/2007) based almost strictly on its title, but the basement of the Harvard Book Store had about half a dozen of the Penguin Great Journeys in the travel section and I couldn't afford them all, and I am not looking forward to my doctor's appointment in about eight hours, especially since I stayed awake to write a post which I did not manage to finish, but the point here is that I would need to pry myself away from this keyboard no matter what, because I just exclaimed to spatch: "What price Hollywood? What price salvation now? But for Wales!—" by which I intended to convey my disappointment in screenwriters, and when I turn into quotations I need to head for bed.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Rock 'n' roll me over boys
And get this damn job over boys........ :o)

[shewhomust]

I resist those pretty little Penguin editions by telling myself that they are, after all, only edited highlights. But if you'd found a series of Great Penguin Journeys, now, that'd be different!

[davidgillon]

I admit that I bought the small neat teal-green Penguin edition of William Dampier's Piracy, Turtles & Flying Foxes (1697/2007) based almost strictly on its title,

Who wouldn't!? Or at least take it off the shelf and have a rummage through. That's a wonderful title.

[dhampyresa]

when I turn into quotations I need to head for bed.

What a delightful way to phrase it!

[sovay]

But if you'd found a series of Great Penguin Journeys, now, that'd be different!

I think a series of travel literature by penguins would be delightful. I bet it would include great places to eat fish.

[sovay]

Who wouldn't!? Or at least take it off the shelf and have a rummage through. That's a wonderful title.

Thank you for understanding!

[sovay]

What a delightful way to phrase it!

Thank you!

[sovay]

Rock 'n' roll me over boys
And get this damn job over boys........

Exactly.

(Haul on the bowline, Kitty comes from Liverpool . . .)

[cmcmck]

I picked up 'Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' for much the same reasons back in the day! :o)

[brigdh]

Oh, what a cool idea for a publishing line! And they're so pretty! ...I can absolutely see why you needed to buy one.

[sovay]

And they're so pretty! ...I can absolutely see why you needed to buy one.

Thank you! I am thinking that if some of the others are left over whenever I return to the Harvard Book Store, they may need to come home with me. I know they're selections, but the one I got was pretty great.