TxRad
Dirty Old Man
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- Jan 13, 2005
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*pokes the dirty old man*
*hugs the McKenna*
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*pokes the dirty old man*
*hugs the McKenna*
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Let me hold you until times of light, sit next to me and we will face it together we are here and we are near![]()


*snuggles close to you*Thank you so, so much, dear one. Your nearness is a great comfort on this dark day.![]()

Tonight has the potential to become even more self - destructive than it already is.
I will not.
How much more sadness must I endure? I did not think that I could possibly bear anymore, but yet more comes and more comes and I feel that I will crumble.....
Tonight has the potential to become even more self - destructive than it already is.
I will not.

Not directed at anyone here.
Fuck off and die, bitch!
I really don't want to give up, but I'm so tired of this shit.![]()
*hugs*

*hugs*
My blurt: Sometimes...I wish the earth would swallow me up.
Or that I could just go back to bed and not wake up.
I really don't want to give up, but I'm so tired of this shit.![]()

I've been weeding my library. So far I have selected about 300-400 books to go.
Some decisions are easy. Dennis Wheatley is going, as are several police biographies e.g. Slipper of the Yard.
Some are hard. I'm still keeping twenty volumes of Charles Dickens' "All The Year Round". Why? I'm unlikely to read them again. I'm also keeping his Chapman and Hall 19th Century editions and my small collection of the original weekly parts that are the true first editions of some of his works.
But if I want to read Dickens I'll probably read a modern paperback, so why am I using five yards of shelf space for old editions? If I really want to read Dickens almost any charity bookshop has multiple copies.
My local library isn't much help if I want to reduce my collection. Apart from "King Solomon's Mines" they don't have Sir H Rider Haggard. I have at least twenty volumes of his novels. If I get rid of them I would have real difficulty replacing them. That also applies to Thorne Smith, Zane Grey, A E W Mason, Quiller-Couch, A G Hales, Rudyard Kipling except "The Jungle Book", Raphael Sabatini, Russell Thorndike's Dr Syn novels... The list of irreplaceables is long.
Even standard works of English Literature don't appear on my local library's shelves - De Quincey, Lamb's Elia, Bacon's Essays. I wouldn't expect them to have Giraldus Cambriensis or Anglo-Saxon but I don't want just the latest Chick-lit or Clive Cussler.
Back to sorting. Only 5,000 more to consider. My personal library already reduced over last 5 years from 25,000 and then I had my shop's stock as well.
Reluctantly sorting Og
*tongue in cheek*You can send any books you are discarding my way!!![]()
"Sir, would you like us to cut your pizza into six slices, or eight?"I ate six out of eight slices of a pizza for dinner last night...