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| Mister Brightside |
after one comes another (and by this i do not mean the origins of today's stains, whatever they might be) The Book Island, buying a copy of the collected works of Emerson and Poe and talking to the old shopkeeper about Henry Miller and Erica Jong and of the antipathy between Updike and Wolfe Suddenly, in walks a jacket-clad street person, face lined with salt-and-pepper stubble and short cropped grey hair, makes a brief circuit of the store shelves and interrupts with this "Well, if you start off with a Book Island, next thing you know you've got a Book Peninsula, then a Book Continent, then a Book Super-Continent and a Book Planet, and then who knows?" and as quickly as he entered the store, he left, walking his strange walk with his slightly bent posture. The old shopkeeper and i could not resume our conversation, as there was just no way to top that little, random outburst. |
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