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woo! a day off! i've happily been celebrating it with a trip to their library...they happen to be having their big friends of the library book sale which i hadn't been to in years...paperbacks are 50 cents, so i got a bunch of stuff and didn't spend a lot either! i may go back tomorrow, as the last time i went it was at the end and in trying to get rid of everything it became something like $10 for a paper sack full of books...so i just crammed stuff in without regard 'cuz it was technically free...but it was nice to go early while the good books were still there (in theory) and on a day i normally wouldn't be able to make it because of work! so, to end the suspense: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner, Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut, Victory by Joseph Conrad, Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, The Pearl by John Steinbeck, Candide by Voltaire, King Harald's Saga by Snorri Sturluson, The Aeneid by Virgil, A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space by Kathryn Kramer, A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White, Il Barone Rampante by Italo Calvino (yeah, in italian, i can't read this, but it looks cool...maybe if i relearn spanish i'll be able to stumble through it?), Cathedral by Raymond Carver, The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, The Immoralist by André Gide, A Treasury of Modern Asian Stories, Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins, El Príncipe Encantado by Jennifer Greene, Poesías Líricas - El Estudiante de Salamanca, Mariana Pineda - Doña Rosita la Soltera o el Lenguaje de las Flores by Federico García Lorca, Historia de la Novela Hispanoamericana, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, and Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (okay, i already have this, but is an older version with a really cool cover (though the one i have has a cool cover too, gadzooks!) remember: 50 cents! after leaving i decided i may give it to someone...) well, the regular library bookstore happened to be open so i walked over there in my book-buying mode...not AS cheap but still very cheap: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg, The History of Danish Dreams by Peter Høeg, and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams...okay, i know i said i was through with book-buying for a while, but c'mon! 50 cent books...the possibility of a paper sack full of books...you can't argue with that...i'm by no means financially hampered becaues of this...anyway...

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[absolution.livejournal.com]

you forgot to give props to the stunning and divine creature who informed you of this event! :P

[absolution.livejournal.com]

i really really hate last tango in paris, like you don't know how, but Heather reminded me of this part and it reminds me of you! ...must be all the ass talkin'

MS: You know why I'm in love with him?

MB: I can't wait.

MS: Because he know. He know how to make me fall in love with him.

MB: You want this man you love to protect and take care of you.

MS: Yeah.

MB: You want this golden, shining, powerful warrior to build a fortress where you can hide So you don't have to ever... have...You don't ever have to be afraid. You don't have to feel lonely or empty. --That's what you want, isn't it?

MS: Yes.

MB: Well, you'll never find it.

MS: But I find this man.

MB: Then it won't be long until he'll want you to build a fortress for him out of your tits and your cunt and your hair and your smile and the way you smell. And... and some place where he can feel comfortable and secure enough so that he can worship in front of the altar of his own prick.

MS: But I find this man!

MB: No, you're alone.

You're all alone.
You won't be free of that feeling of being alone until you look death right in the face.

I mean, that sounds like bullshit, some romantic crap, until you go right up into the ass of death.

Right up in his ass...till you find the womb of fear.

And then, ...maybe...

Maybe then, you'll be able to find him.

MS: But I find this man. He's you! You are that man!