Member: beelzebubba

Oh no! I just did a Google images search.
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posted by clamairy at 7:30 am (EST) on Nov 25, 2009

Thanks for the kind words. It's encouraging to see a library so similar. I can't say that I know many classicists with a strong interest in skepticism/science.

posted by thecardiffgiant at 11:33 pm (EST) on Nov 2, 2009

Where The Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
and before the street begins,
and there the grass grows soft and white,
and there the sun burns crimson bright,
and there the moon-bird rests from his flight
to cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
and the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
we shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow
and watch where the chalk-white arrows go
to the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
and we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
for the children, they mark, and the children, they know,
the place where the sidewalk ends.

posted by theoldman at 7:22 am (EST) on Oct 18, 2009

Thank you for your kind words. How are things in Austin? Sometimes I dream of the old Half Price Books on Lavaca, gone these 20+ years...

posted by Makifat at 3:01 pm (EST) on Oct 13, 2009

I have a similar problem with my husband - can't sleep if there's a pinprick of light from my side of the bed though I'm supposed to sleep through tossing and turning, snoring and grunting that would do credit to a warthog. These are the things we should check out before we head up the aisle!

posted by Booksloth at 5:12 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2009

And what a lovely thing to say! Thank you so much. Feel free to browse around the library any time you want. It's really nice of you to say you enjoy the reviews and posts. I know I sometimes upset a few people too, but I can only say what I feel and hope for the best. It's really encouraging to know others find my somewhat rambling comments entertaining. I see you are a bit of a Neal Stephenson fan. I read his Quicksilver a while ago and absolutely loved it. Unfortunately, my eyesight could be better and I do quite a bit of reading in bed in a poor light and I just found the very tiny typeface in my edition too hard to take so I haven't been able to read any of his other books. Maybe one day I'll get them all in audio.

posted by Booksloth at 2:30 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2009

Thank you! I am glad to hear that you enjoy Gravity's Rainbow, it gives me hope that I too may someday finish reading it and enjoy doing so. I am ashamed to say that I haven't been technically reading it for a little while, it is just so easy to fall into reading more straightforward books. I left it slightly past the half-way point, but I intend to pick it up again soon. My favorite part so far was the short aside about melatonin producing cells, their pride in their neuronal heritage, and the terrible secret about their fate. That little section was inspired.

posted by jlelliott at 2:23 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2009