I was reinforcing and mending a whole load of large print westerns today. Often readers will leave their mark on the book, intials, circling the fifth letter on the first paragraph of the first page, a special symbol. Usually fairly benign, even if misguided: we get multiple copies of the same book, and editions that may have differing covers and titles depending on country of origin.
Sometimes a book will inspire a special reaction. Like the Rolling Stone magazine cover of Billy-Joe Armstrong on which someone scrawled "Sexy Biotch". Today, leafing through the books I found someone had been roused by "Black Jo of the Pecos" by Jeff Blaine. The reaction was swift and negative. Pure Rubbish. Don't bother reading it.
I had to rip out and replace the page, which is now housed in the Bindery Annals.
Showing posts with label Found objects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Found objects. Show all posts
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
Saturday, 23 June 2007
Found
I have been carrying around a scrap of fabric for some days now, with the good intention of typing up the print on it. It came from a broken jacket donated to the op shop. The slogan was just too bizarre to ignore.
It said:
Thanks Engrish! Thats almost as funny as a good ESOL lyric.
It said:
Shibuya TEE
made in tokyo toilet
Thanks Engrish! Thats almost as funny as a good ESOL lyric.
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