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- From: jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Joann Zimmerman)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Confirmed Biblioholics
- Message-ID: <86093@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 20:17:32 GMT
- References: <1993Jan3.005531.23650@unislc.uucp>
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- In article <1993Jan3.005531.23650@unislc.uucp> Robert Despain,
- rod@unislc.uucp writes:
- >> 24. Do you have at least six books next to your bed?
- >
- >CBs have headboards that are bookcases. (Went into the bedroom
- >and counted: 6 on the floor next to the bed, 28 on the bed, 40 in
- >the headboard bookcase.)
-
- Super-CBs, alert to their comfort while reading in bed, eschew
- headboards. (If you are short, your head will barely reach the top of the
- headboard, and you will get a profound crick in your neck.) Instead, they
- have proper bookcases in the bedroom.
-
- >25. When a bookstore clerk has been unable to locate a certain book in
- >the stacks, have you ever been able to find that book?
- >
- >CBs rarely consult with bookstore clerks. (When I go to the
- >local B&N, I sneak back to where they have their inventory stored
- >on a PC and look up what I'm after. Not about to ask the clerks
- >if that's OK; they might say no.)
-
- Amen to all that. But there is also the problem of standing around
- looking blankly into space, consulting and interpreting the contents of
- one's memory palace ("Now what else was it that I had promised myself to
- look for?"), and having this profound concentration being mistaken for
- total confusion. The last three times I've been in one of the local
- Bookstops, the same clerk has come up to me, and inquired in tones of
- gentle pity if he could help me in any way. I've turned him down all
- three times, and now I'm sure he regards me as a hopeless case who
- doesn't even know when she needs expert help.
- --
-
- "They like sitting around reading all the books there are. And then they
- love arguing about them. Some of those arguments go on for millenium
- after millenium. It just seems to keep them young, for some reason,
- arguing about books." -- Julian Barnes
-
- Joann Zimmerman (jzimm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu)
-