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Is there a database where I should report their demise?
About a week ago I hurriedly dropped off 4 boxes of books at a friend's place and planned on going back, in again, about a week, to properly store them. She had me leave them on a floor in the spare bedroom.
So, a mutual friend calls me this morning..."Did you hear?, Elaine's house is swamped with 1/2 a foot of water?!"
After a couple of long hours, I buck up (yes, bad pun intended, just to certify my present state of mind) and call her.
"Are you OK Elaine," I first ask her, and she immediately begins to cry.
I lie and tell her I took my favorite and most valuable books. She knows nothing of books and settles down, later assuring me the rest are lying outside to dry, spines splayed in the sun!
I'm quite sure I stacked the 4 boxes in 2 piles, but who knows...
They're just books, right?! I'll let you all know who drowned when I know...
(They weren't all Bukowski books, by the way)
About a week ago I hurriedly dropped off 4 boxes of books at a friend's place and planned on going back, in again, about a week, to properly store them. She had me leave them on a floor in the spare bedroom.
So, a mutual friend calls me this morning..."Did you hear?, Elaine's house is swamped with 1/2 a foot of water?!"
After a couple of long hours, I buck up (yes, bad pun intended, just to certify my present state of mind) and call her.
"Are you OK Elaine," I first ask her, and she immediately begins to cry.
I lie and tell her I took my favorite and most valuable books. She knows nothing of books and settles down, later assuring me the rest are lying outside to dry, spines splayed in the sun!
I'm quite sure I stacked the 4 boxes in 2 piles, but who knows...
They're just books, right?! I'll let you all know who drowned when I know...
(They weren't all Bukowski books, by the way)