{"id":23835,"date":"2022-05-22T08:26:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T12:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=23835"},"modified":"2022-05-22T08:39:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T12:39:25","slug":"remember-old-library-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=23835","title":{"rendered":"Remember old library books?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I was writing the post about Edna St. Vincent Millay<\/a> a few days ago, I thought about the 1964 Rowse edition of the Shakespeare sonnets that I used to own. That book was destroyed in a house fire in 1974. Having recently gotten a new shelf to occupy the last remaining shelf space in the little room that I now call the library, I’m buying books a bit recklessly, with a thought to timeless reference books. Of course I have a book of Shakespeare’s complete works, but the Rowse edition of the sonnets is a book that every library should have.<\/p>\n

This book cost $10.84 from a bookseller on Amazon — a bargain. The book originally came from a high school library. Apparently it was checked out six times before the library got rid of it. How sad is that? <\/p>\n

Note, by the way, how the rhyme-scheme of Shakespeare’s sonnets differs from the rhyme-scheme of the Millay sonnet that I previously posted. Shakespeare’s rhyme-scheme is ABBA, CDCD, EFEF, GG — three quatrains and a couplet. <\/p>\n

Because I’m going through a phase in which I’d rescue and collect old typewriters if I had the space for them, I’m fascinating with artifacts from the typewriter era. A few days ago I watched the movie Operation Mincemeat<\/em>, which was a pretty good movie. There were many scenes with typewriters, as there were with Julia<\/em>. The renewal of interest in typewriters, I’m guessing, has encouraged screenwriters to include typewriter scenes in period pieces. I’m all for it.<\/p>\n

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