Silly old knight, that can't be right

[austin_dern]

Now that's silly, having a weekend Used Book Sale with the sign ``No Loitering.'' The point of used books is loitering. The tent had a properly heterogenous mix, Jim Bishop's paperback A Day In The Life Of President Kennedy alongside an aggressively coffee-table book like Support and Seduction: A History of Corsets and Bras (there's days I feel I'm the only male who doesn't find breasts the most fascinating thing ever; but I know there are three others). Two people giggled over the coffee-table Roman Sex. The Romans, of course, invented Tapestries Muck.

They had wonderfully futile sections, Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud in Romance, and Nintendo Game Tips in Science Fiction. I got some Asimov nonfiction, the Best of Edmond Hamilton, a book on skyscrapers, and Thea Alexander's 2150 A.D., which looks endearingly 1975. The Author page says Thea has a ``graduate degree in Counseling from Gannon College'' and is director of ``The Macro Society, not to be confused with other groups using the word `Macro' as part of their name.'' The cover promises ``A new kind of man -- a new kind of woman -- a new kind of love.'' I can't wait.

My heart was won by the 1982 Guinness Book of World Records. My fifth-grade teacher gave me one, reward for cleaning out every SRA reading kit box two months before the year was over. That copy I wore down and broke and lost half, so having a surrogate is the unadulterated joy of an intimate piece of childhood caught.

There was one girl there wearing white felt bunny ears. I don't know why.

Trivia: 1944 and 1969 had no lunar eclipses. Source: 1982 Guinness Book of World Records, Norris McWirther.

Currently Reading: Revolutions of 1848: A Social History, Priscilla Robertson.

Comments

[chanspot.livejournal.com]

I picked up a nifty book, ads from the 70s. In it is an advertisement for 'the world's first gay doll.' They explain how he can help arrange furniture and clothing.

There are others that are just as crazy.

Stuck it on the coffee table, next to Flawed Dogs (http://www.twbookmark.com/books/71/0316713597/) (check out the 'dog creator'). ':)

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I think I've seen those sorts of books, actually -- there're a few at Kinokuniya with reprinted ads from the 1940s and 1950s, and wouldn't be surprised if there were a few from later decades. Haven't seen any gay dolls, though.

Neat book, though ... I didn't know Berkeley Breathed had done that.

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

There was one girl there wearing white felt bunny ears. I don't know why.

Because they're nifty. Duh. *grin*

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I almost forgot ...