Sunday Snippet

Edna Earle could sit and ponder all day on how the little tail of the "C" got through the "L" in a Coca-Cola sign.  --Eudora Welty, The Wide Net

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Light filtered in through the lace curtains and made patterns on the polished wood. The air smelled of dust and old paper. Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of fingerprints and sudden laughter and the sighs of readers, too. It was humbling to consider all these authors, struggling with this word or that phrase, recording their thoughts for people they'd never meet.

~Lucy Jarret from The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards

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>journal
I've never been good at keeping a journal as such, partly because I can never figure out who it is that I'm writing to.  But I've written lots of things down in notebooks over the years.  I'm glad of nearly everything I have written down (legibly) and tucked away.  I kick myself for all the things I haven't.
~ Ray Blount, Jr., Alphabet Juice

Ditto.

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My Library

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Latest additions to my restaurant pitchers collection....

I love the detail on the rim of the smaller pitcher...

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I heard Quincy Jones being interviewed on NPR.  He had a new recording out, a departure from his recent work.  The interviewer, rather tensely, "What would you tell people to listen for in this music?"

Jones:  "Don't listen for anything.  Listen to it."

From Alphabet Juice by Roy Blunt, Jr.