If it cheers you up, here's a somewhat tear-jerky but rather nice fanfic (to my untrained, non-fanfic reading mind) on the "Problem of Susan," if you didn't like Neil Gaiman's take.
You kiss wallets? What are you, some sort of perv?
Seriously, thanks. I ended up spending some 120 pounds in books in an hour or so. Must have been crazy... except I find myself looking at the items I bought and asking myself which ones I could do without, and I can't think of any.
Lots. Most of them discounted. Five or six on ancient Greece, which I need for research; a couple of translations from classical Greek - Plutarch's religious essays, and the idyls of Theocritus, Bion and Moschos; one about recent Biblical archaeology; four about the history of science; a collection of Queen Elizabeth I's writings (I find her a curiously hard to grasp personality, and I hope these will give me a handle on her); a copy of one of my all-time favourites, Popper's The Open Society, which I had been without for far too long; a couple of items about pre-Greek cultures; and a history of American mass media, which is another area I intend to research. My back and arms did not like it much.
Ooh, that book is quite good. Too often those subjects are discussed without a proper historical grounding. What he had to say about the nature of the postal system and telegraph was fascinating. Just shows you get the media you deserve. I'd love to read what he has to say about the FCC and media deregulation (he stops around 1940, I think).
Well, I could afford it... just about... but I am not used to dropping £120 in a single afternoon, even on books. And the fact that they were almost all big heavy hardback items (discounted, so there was a lot) did not make it any better. I had to lug the lot home.
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Date: 2006-11-29 06:30 am (UTC)Seriously, thanks. I ended up spending some 120 pounds in books in an hour or so. Must have been crazy... except I find myself looking at the items I bought and asking myself which ones I could do without, and I can't think of any.
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Date: 2006-11-29 07:20 am (UTC)I'm actually taking a class in that.
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Date: 2006-11-29 08:15 am (UTC)Love the Popper one too.
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