"But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city."
Evelyn Waugh in BRIDESHEAD REVISITED and
Posted here to save and savor.
I'm driven to read Brideshead...so I ordered a used copy.
The ever growing stack of books to my left best not topple, it might crush me.
Evelyn Waugh in BRIDESHEAD REVISITED and
Posted here to save and savor.
I'm driven to read Brideshead...so I ordered a used copy.
The ever growing stack of books to my left best not topple, it might crush me.
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Date: 2018-11-05 01:56 am (UTC)HAHAHA, kindred spirits for sure! I keep my cellphone in my pocket, just in case... Still laughing...
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Date: 2018-11-05 02:40 am (UTC)911: "What's your emergency?"
Me: "I'm stuck under a pile of books."
911: (silence)
Me: "A really BIG pile of books."
911: "Your know you could be prosecuted for this."
Me: "Prosecuted? For what, failure to put my books in a book case?"
911: (click)
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Date: 2018-11-05 04:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-05 04:49 pm (UTC)