'I thought that once the books found their place, I would find mine. I was to be proved wrong.'
- alberto mangel, packing my library: an elegy and ten digressions.
horsemouth is back from a visit to abergavenny
the first he has made since he has been back in the wilderness.
it is a surprisingly pretty town and it was a bright sunshine-y day.
he used the semi-legendary 442 bus via abbeydore, longtown, pandy inn etc.). the journey took the better part of an hour (1hr 12 mins). when he got there he raided the second hand books section of every charity shop he could find. (regrettably he missed out the town's actual second hand book shop near the bus station). he also made time to go up to the castle and look at the town museum.
it looks like he wasn't needed for his meeting after all. horsemouth will be sorry to say goodbye to all that (but it looks like he is not needed).
accessions diary
- a nietzsche reader, selected and translated by r.j. hollingdale - one squid. horsemouth has various other neitzsches that he should get on and read (er. but they're not here, so...)
- han kang, human acts - one squid. author of the vegetarian.
- john williams, butcher's crossing- one squid
- alberto manguel, packing my library - one squid (should've been two but the assistant took pity on horsemouth)
the manguel, so far, features all the right things, books, libraries, old barns, gardens.
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