Creek Running North

John, quit giving up strategic secrets! Come ON.

Absofuckinlutely!!  At one point, while on my three-month long summer tour, i dropped in to visit some friends.  Until that moment i hadn’t really felt the impact of the lack of books in my travels (sure i had some with me to read, but for the most part my tour was library free with only one stop at Powells for an afternoon).  Standing in their library, walls covered with shelves full of great books, collected over decades, i sighed and felt whole.  Books are so much a part of my life, and the notion that i couldn’t be whole without them in my presence was surprising yet quite satisfying.  Books are good.

True words. As a librarian, I would very much like to see them on a inspirational poster (maybe not for the children’s section, though) :)

=v= Spyder, ITYM absodon’tfuck’emlutely.  I read it in a book somewhere, wink wink.

I remember once playing Taboo at our friends’ house, and an eight-year-old was reading the clue; she said “There are lots of them all over the house” - and everyone said “Books?”

(The answer was, in fact, “ants” - which was also true.)

It was a branch of this same family to whom my parents gave a dictionary as a wedding present.

(My mother’s a librarian - it helps.)

Now that I think about it, my first boyfriend was raised in a house where the only books were a set of encyclopedias and the books he owned - and at the time, I thought it was the weirdest thing I’d ever seen.

(We didn’t last long.)

::nominates for best quote of ‘07::

Now we know who should author the next NEA reading study. The proper assignments obviously are Waters on policy, and Danielewski on font. 

N.B. the inevitable corollary as to invitees who ignore the books in your own house. If they don’t want to get into your head ...