Message 17/19
Date: 21-Sep-04 @ 01:29 PM -
RE: how does it sound ?
wow, my first remix offer
a little story.
i've been working in a bookstore for 15 years now and i'm familliar with a lot of authors and "know" of the existence or at least their output of many more. there is one particular author i had never read for various reasons: time, space, motive. a friend of mine whose studying at university was commenting on this author, and i was downright fascinated. so when the book came to me, i brought it home, found a spot on a shelf and left it there for the future.
we continued in the following months with my friend, our discussions about cultural stratas, reception and perception, ethno-linguistics, translation distortions et al. he comes back with the author and brings me to a full tilt on his case. going back home, i need to read it. so i look for it. can't find it. so i look at every shelf again. and again. after about an hour i'm starting to ask myself if i have dreamed the bringing home of the book. i sit and think, trying to visualize myself holding the book. no luck. after a few minutes of brain racking, i suddenly stand up and walk towards a book cabinet, open the glass door and there it is, between Bœhme's L'aurore naissante and Flammarion's reves etoiles. altho i have no strict order amongst my books, it shouldn't have been there. or so i thought.The aleph, by Jorge Luis Borges. talk about a gift
so in order to celebrate the anecdote , i'm all for a remix
that is if you're not taking the piss, but listening to twisted man, you don't seem to.
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