Comments on: Crime Time http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/01/05/555/ One more bite of the apple. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:15:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: David Thayer http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/01/05/555/#comment-22158 David Thayer Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:46:07 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/01/05/555/#comment-22158 When Christopher Columbus discovered Venezuela he bought a condo immediately. Captain Vancouver had the same idea. Current abode scheduled to be bulldozed unless lifted off its foundations in a windstorm. When Christopher Columbus discovered Venezuela he bought a condo immediately. Captain Vancouver had the same idea. Current abode scheduled to be bulldozed unless lifted off its foundations in a windstorm.

]]> By: david i http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/01/05/555/#comment-22119 david i Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:02:03 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/01/05/555/#comment-22119 Moving in the spring? I occasionally do so myself, when I emerge from my winter lair. But your comments hint at something larger than a four-legged amble in search of roots and berries. Are you planning on relocating your residence? Didn't you just do that? We've occasionally tried to sort through books and diminish our holdings. This has enabled us--after screaming fights--to get rid of a history of Venezuela written in 1961 (and discarded by a college library), several computer manuals for computers that are no longer manufactured, and two disintegrating paperback novels by John Gardner which we already own in hardback. Overall, sorting through books just isn't worth the pain. It's easier to to build a bigger house. (Though I might feel differently if publishers were mailing me cartons of books for review.) See the excellent "So Many Books" by Gabriel Zaid, from Paul Dry Books (a division of someone much larger). No, I'm not kidding, Zaid's book is brilliant and actually says some things which ought to be obvious but instead are new: http://www.amazon.com/So-Many-Books-Publishing-Abundance/dp/158988003X . Kind of like the intertemporal influence of Leonard on Flaubert--once it's pointed out, it's so obvious. Well, Leonard plus Bukowski, really... Moving in the spring?

I occasionally do so myself, when I emerge from my winter lair. But your comments hint at something larger than a four-legged amble in search of roots and berries. Are you planning on relocating your residence? Didn’t you just do that?

We’ve occasionally tried to sort through books and diminish our holdings. This has enabled us–after screaming fights–to get rid of a history of Venezuela written in 1961 (and discarded by a college library), several computer manuals for computers that are no longer manufactured, and two disintegrating paperback novels by John Gardner which we already own in hardback. Overall, sorting through books just isn’t worth the pain. It’s easier to to build a bigger house. (Though I might feel differently if publishers were mailing me cartons of books for review.)

See the excellent “So Many Books” by Gabriel Zaid, from Paul Dry Books (a division of someone much larger). No, I’m not kidding, Zaid’s book is brilliant and actually says some things which ought to be obvious but instead are new: http://www.amazon.com/So-Many-Books-Publishing-Abundance/dp/158988003X .

Kind of like the intertemporal influence of Leonard on Flaubert–once it’s pointed out, it’s so obvious. Well, Leonard plus Bukowski, really…

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