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Tagsppe (15), queer (9), politics (6), funnies (4), inner child (3) — see all tags
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Member sinceDec 19, 2006
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Because when you search for books to catalogue, it doesn't just turn up names, it turns up editions. Which is mostly a good thing - at least I don't have to suffer the indignity of seeing the ugly, ugly garish new cover (what was wrong with Feiffer's cartoons?) of The Phantom Tollbooth in my catalogue and can approximate my own copy. But, being the compulsive type I am, it leads to misery when I can't find a proper match on Amazon. There are a hundred editions of Lord of the Rings, and the only one I can't find is my own, three hard-covers passed down from my mother; similarly, how can I catalogue Peake without associating him with my battered, beautiful thirty-year-old paperbacks complete with his own pencil drawings on the covers (Gormenghast itself with a perfect, character-defining sketch of Steerpike I've never found elsewhere)? Nothing else feels right, I'm afraid.
posted by gavagai at 6:32 pm (EST) on Dec 19, 2006
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