tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post5916469521692481256..comments2024-03-22T21:02:55.051+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: One.Giovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-82796246240965601672009-09-13T21:28:11.717+12:002009-09-13T21:28:11.717+12:00Supplementary thanks to the people who wrote after...Supplementary thanks to the people who wrote after the first round of thanks. I'm really quite fond of all you. <br /><br /><b>@Make Tea Not War</b> "I'm especially drawn to books with inscriptions that seem to tell a story about the former owner."<br /><br />It's hard to beat Dougal's story of course, but some folks are doing a good job of trying <a href="http://Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-7200419148327150062009-09-13T14:03:25.562+12:002009-09-13T14:03:25.562+12:00i.
When they saw her
manuscripts' disorder,
t...i.<br /><br />When they saw her<br />manuscripts' disorder,<br />then they knew<br />her depression was mortal.<br /><br />ii.<br /><br />My affairs I conducted<br />between towers of paper;<br />one sweep of the arm<br />and all order was gone.<br /><br />iii.<br /><br />When first I set off<br />the alarm at the library<br />I imagined a Venetian<br />midget would stab me.<br /><br />iv.<brMegan Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03584562106579704547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-45508231106349271002009-09-12T19:22:08.969+12:002009-09-12T19:22:08.969+12:00My places (most of which are not houses) are book-...My places (most of which are not houses) are book-holds..;<br />"The Little World of Don Camillo" (Hutchinson? Yellow-jacketed with reddish type?) was part of my childhood.<br />All best for the anniversary - ka mihi koa mo te ra-huri tau-<br />(cheese comeeen-)keri hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-76756459410219960502009-09-10T18:36:07.702+12:002009-09-10T18:36:07.702+12:00Lovely post! I'm also from a family who moved ...Lovely post! I'm also from a family who moved continents and I think that put me off book ownership to a great extent. There's something quite traumatizing about living without household goods for three months and then when the container arrives and you are desperately looking for plates just finding box after box of useless books (and also ashtrays)<br /><br />But I do occasionally feel Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04797661728002935006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-71443873434661207392009-09-09T03:01:15.474+12:002009-09-09T03:01:15.474+12:00Happy Birthday!
I really rely on this blog to kic...Happy Birthday!<br /><br />I really rely on this blog to kick start my Mondays, so I wish it many years to come.<br /><br />I'm so jealous about the book fair... just that is a reason to come visit you in Wellington (like I needed one more).<br /><br />When I moved to Canada I went through the same sadness about having to choose a selected amount of my books to bring over. Fast forward ten Taramochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306494919275797616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-3869223602311825292009-09-08T20:01:10.812+12:002009-09-08T20:01:10.812+12:00Giovanni, when I win that lotto prize, which must ...Giovanni, when I win that lotto prize, which must be only a matter of time, I'll so give you a grant for your research project.<br /><br />Regarding your trauma of dismantling your library. With a family that regularly moved countries and continents throughout my childhood and young adulthood, the one constant that made a new place 'home' was the unpacking of my books and arranging Yvonnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17177995457882854400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-49184768912686419782009-09-08T16:15:31.440+12:002009-09-08T16:15:31.440+12:00You people are all so nice. And good-looking.
@P...You people are all so nice. And good-looking. <br /><br /><b>@Philip, Lyndon, Daleaway</b> I'll be in the Little World in three weeks, that's where <a href="http://bat-bean-beam.blogspot.com/2009/07/you-didnt-know-him.html" rel="nofollow">Dad</a> is now. It will likely be a brief visit, with no time to pop into the Guareschi museum, but who knows... <br /><br /><b>@Robyn</b> "Also a Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-21209109298808580122009-09-08T15:46:47.129+12:002009-09-08T15:46:47.129+12:00Many happy returns!
I was raised on Don Camillo. ...Many happy returns!<br /><br />I was raised on Don Camillo. Lovely stuff. Glad he's not been forgotten. <br />And I still have both those annuals you feature - the boys' and the girls' - since new. How we loved getting our various annuals, with their alien tales of dorms and midnight feasts and snow. And I also kept the ubiquitous Coles Funny Picture Book, which is rather ugly and daleawaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-69353093082936479832009-09-08T14:00:53.460+12:002009-09-08T14:00:53.460+12:00I'm very much looking forward to the post on &...I'm very much looking forward to the post on 'About Dust-Men'. Cheers for another fine blogging year ahead.Cheryl Bernsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05831267597649352995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-5764018059145412009-09-08T12:51:09.848+12:002009-09-08T12:51:09.848+12:00A good year indeed. Happy birthday!A good year indeed. Happy birthday!GZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07756723544792981390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-18040953277036045522009-09-08T12:47:21.886+12:002009-09-08T12:47:21.886+12:00Happy birthday!Happy birthday!Deborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182573274494086468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-13874492580500920922009-09-08T12:41:15.707+12:002009-09-08T12:41:15.707+12:00Working in libraries and reading this blog has re-...Working in libraries and reading this blog has re-kindled (yes, I know) my love of books as objects.<br />Happy anniversary. It has been a very good year.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-48511802570380738132009-09-08T12:26:49.290+12:002009-09-08T12:26:49.290+12:00Happy Birthday!
Great news you have 4 cool new ban...Happy Birthday!<br />Great news you have 4 cool new banners- it means you'll have to make it to 5.robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11518548366478775367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-18083358516296046242009-09-08T12:12:49.560+12:002009-09-08T12:12:49.560+12:00This post makes me sad that working in libraries f...This post makes me sad that working in libraries for so long has made me sort of... 'over books', or at least over collecting them. Perhaps I'll get the joy back eventually.<br /><br />(I did buy a photographic history of the early years of Van Halen in Rotorua recently, though.)Daniellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03896817139131485525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-58515609515671364792009-09-08T11:58:25.650+12:002009-09-08T11:58:25.650+12:00誕生日おめでとうございます!
Happy Birthday.
That's a beaut...誕生日おめでとうございます!<br />Happy Birthday.<br /><br />That's a beautiful Russ cover.<br /><br />I have a wonderful copy of "The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse" from the 2003 Ministry book fair. It's a withdrawn copy from the Wellington Prison Education Office and on the front page, in a cursive script more elegant than anything anyone my age could ever hope for, someone's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-38864646780527617662009-09-08T10:26:08.525+12:002009-09-08T10:26:08.525+12:00Happy birthday.
I can confirm the one I got is no...Happy birthday.<br /><br />I can confirm the one I got is not part of that set: It's <i>Don Camillo's Dilemma</i> in hardback, yellow flyleaf with a couple of more catoons at more natural size.<br /><br />... and a small backpack of other things, at least one of which was purchased for the Awesome Underwater Diving Suit art on the cover.Lyndonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05622953598107216261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-1505809442736460452009-09-08T09:47:05.467+12:002009-09-08T09:47:05.467+12:00Congratulations on your anniversary. Your writings...Congratulations on your anniversary. Your writings are always good to read.<br /><br />I admire your discipline. Maybe I need to set aside some writing time once a week and just do something.<br /><br />Also a bonus congratulations to Ms Bird for her poems - they add a most welcome dimension.<br /><br /><i>Speaking of which, I'm working on the slightly corny and quite possibly baseless theoryRobynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278675946018423652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-59998666439915042172009-09-08T03:08:45.834+12:002009-09-08T03:08:45.834+12:00I used to have a copy (and if those aren't the...I used to have a copy (and if those aren't the most poignant half-dozen words in the bibliophile vocabulary, I'd like to know what are) of the Penguin edition of <i>The Little World of Don Camillo</i> with that same neon-light style of drawing on the cover. The TV series with Mario Adorf was being shown on one of the only three channels we had at the time, and a teacher at Tadcaster Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18076353733931722397noreply@blogger.com