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#Maybe 84 Charing Cross Road had too strong an effect on me. As I turn my head this way and that
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#Maybe 84 Charing Cross Road had too strong an effect on me. As I turn my head this way and that
#trying to figure out what I shall do with myself when the semester is over and ties are cut with the school I've been teaching for this pas
#decade
#it occurs to me that I might go - hat in hand as it were - to the old bookseller who runs my favourite used bookstore of all time.
#The shop has the most wonderfully curated selection. The first time I walked in there
#having been used to the used book section in value village
#I almost had my breath taken away
#I have to be careful not to go there too often because I am weak for spending money on books
#but every Christmas I go and buy a ton as presents and usually something for myself
#and I ask the owner if I can start a stack on his counter while I shop and he is always happy and comments on my finds as I bring them
#He is kind and conversational on those occasions
#My mom once struck up a long conversation with him when we were there together
#and learned how he has owned that shop forty years or so and does not have an assistant because he's always managed on his own
#And last night as I tried to fall asleep I got ridiculously ahead of myself and imagined the possibilities of employment there in
#the detail of a novel without much regard for the probable realities - the realities that he has given no sign of wanting to hire and
#having gone so far without an assistant probably doesn't want one
#that there would be sides to the job which would likely be dreary
#and that as with any job there would be all kinds of difficulties
#BUT I often need these romantic imaginings to spur me on to take any kind of action. So - this might be silly - but I am thinking of doing
#things the old fashioned way - of going round to the shop rather than emailing him - and asking if there is any chance that there might
#be opportunities for work. It will likely all come to nothing and I'll keep looking
#but I'll at least make a memory of having tried.
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