Monday, November 1, 2010

Mystery

Dear people I know, the greatest thing about library books is the stuff you find in them.  I have found pressed flowers, straw, receipts, airplane tickets, and a Valentine's card over the years.  Nothing stumps me more than the pieces of paper on which the previous borrower has written.  Here is what was written in a slip that fell out of 'Atmospheric Disturbances' (not a great book, by the way):

August 30 Sam Roberts and very cute pregnant woman

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14 year old sexually accosted @ Mumford terminal

Having failed to pull the cord acknowledging his desire to exit the bus at the hospital of harried citizens headed home in the thick heat of rush hour. The drunkard expelling toxic fumes half coherently mumbles several stops later his disgust w the driver, through his thick haze requests an ambulance which manages to make its way past the bus before returning sev. minutes later.  Calling the drunkard by first name the calm attendants escort the stumbling man.

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What does it MEAN?  Is it a sign?  Am I in the Da Vinci code?  Do I get to go to Paris to examine a dead man in the Louvre?  Although I would hope that a trip to Paris would NOT involve quite the number of run-on sentences as this slip of paper. 

2 comments:

  1. This reminds me of one time back in either 1978 or 1979, when I was at the library researching a Shakespeare paper and got a surprise. I opened a volume of Strachey's "Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud", and out dropped three b&w polaroids of a naked coed (dated 1965, I think) -- with "full frontal nudity", as it was quaintly called way back then. Made me forget all about Freud's whacko Oedipal theory of Hamlet!

    (signed) the king of run-on sentences

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  2. Oh, thank goodness you found my slip of paper, I have been looking for it for so long that I almost forgot about it but you managed to find it right there in Halifax as though it was meant for you all along but that can't possibly be true because how could I know that YOU would find it, of all people- I couldn't. Or could I?

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