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...a kind of libraryyeahbut® Which kind? Cardigan Library is the sort where there's no reliable index, most of the books are trashy romantic novels or in Welsh or both, and if there is sumptin' worth reading some other bugger's already got it out on extended loan... 
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Cardigan Library is the sort where ...
Little may reasonably be expected from a library named after a sweater, eh?
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named after a sweater could've kept that one close to your vest, Father...
formerly known as etaoin...
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>>...a kind of library
>yeahbut® Which kind?
A visual one.
"He who loves language most would do well to hold ritual book burnings from time to time. Typography is not sacred - language is."
- some bloke, Sept. 2003
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I started releasing books into the wild a year or so ago - then discovered a place that was thirsting for books : the Veterans Hospital, especially "guy" books - action, mystery, westerns, etc.
My local library has a rack of used paperbacks that may be purchased for 25 cents each and I raid that when I have a few bucks extra. The Red Cross and Salvation Army also can find new homes for books. If you know someone serving in Armed Foces of your country, a box of books is always welcome.
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If you know someone serving in Armed Foces of your country, a box of books is always welcome.Yes, I had the pleasure of recommending Joseph Conrad to a Coastguardsman the other day who was looking for some "good classic literature"...he took Lord Jim.
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>>"He who loves language most would do well to hold ritual book burnings from time to time. Typography is not sacred - language is."
- some bloke, Sept. 2003
Ack - book burning. - just goes to show you that not all sayings are sane.
Burning a book does not make language more sacred, nor does keeping a book deminish language in any way.
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Ah books, our compendiums of printed symbolism stuffed safely under the stairs; hoarded for peace of mind, or as piece of mind, eh. These fusions of composition and publication do when euphuistically scorched almost hurt, despite being inert, don't they. But if cut, they do not bleed :-). One wonders if Gutenberg revelled in the authority and materiality that the printed word purveys. As the addictions to, and even casual preoccupation with this historic medium wane though, it's interesting to see this quasi-anchoret culture scurry in free fall to grasp their reading-glasses and rocking chair from where they viewed the world. Anyway, pardon me, by all means read on and I'll look on.
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A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man, for it is said that however much one studies one cannot know without action!
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A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man, for it is said that however much one studies one cannot know without action!
Well, here is another example of the "harmonic convergence" etaoin mentioned that I seem to be having. Within the past week, I have had discussions with two different friends about experience. With one, I was discussing the fact that there are some things that cannot be imparted by words: they have to be lived through, to achieve understanding. From the other, I learned that German has a different word for each of these 3 uses of just one English word: experience things through life, listing your work experience on your résumé, and to experience a peculiar sensation.
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