Anodyne
Saturday, February 17, 2007
 

Disappear Into The Sun

Grey even light, cloud ceiling four thousand feet off the deck and holding. Off to the credit union, abandoning the staff to the week-before-Christmas rush that inexplicably decided to reappear mid-February. Phone ringing, desk chest-deep in books, suitcases, laundry baskets and surplus BCLDB boxes piling up as if flung from a fire hose. Among the 1000+ (!!!) titles that arrived today: a full set of Cornwell Sharpes, and some nice old UK SF hardcovers, including a lovely Wyndham Kraken Wakes and an Arthur Clarke Challenge of The Sea (above) sporting a furtive-looking giant squid. Legendary DC Comics editor Julie Schwartz apparently believed that comics with gorillas on their covers shift units; some variant belief seemingly existed among late 60s UK SF editors, with giant molluscs replacing monkeys.

A little light rain now after dark, Sunny Day Real Estate's intense falsetto anthems on the deck, customers still puttering about. Snapshots on the desk in front of me, studies for my first posed ("cinematographic") picture, Carrying a Table, 2007.

Rain falling through the lamplight.

Tarry in my mind...
- posted by cjb @ 7:13 PM


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