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Justi,
thank you for visiting, I'm glad I took you with me.
posted by
mneme
on December 3, 2006 at 3:24 AM
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Tonyzonit,
one for my list of places to go, if I am ever home long enough.. thanks for the reference.
posted by
mneme
on December 3, 2006 at 3:24 AM
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Ypunday, thank you for the photos..
the younger Emerson looks like Nigel Havers (British actor).. phwoar, as Bridget Jones would say.
posted by
mneme
on December 3, 2006 at 3:23 AM
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Mneme
What a lovely day. I had a great time, hmmm. Excuse me I was off into the scene. It felt like I was there, beautiful writing.
posted by
Justi
on December 2, 2006 at 6:39 PM
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I recommend the Staffordshire Educational Bookshop, Lichfield
posted by
Antonionioni
on December 2, 2006 at 2:31 PM
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mneme
I've never been one to browse old bookstores for long, but I do appreciate their character. You did an excellent job describing one. Congrats on the Emerson find.
posted by
Joe_Love
on December 2, 2006 at 11:12 AM
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OK Mneme, a younger Ralph for Thee
http://www.transcendentalists.com/images/emerson02.jpg
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on December 2, 2006 at 7:49 AM
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http://www.assumption.edu/users/ady/HHRomanticism/Rshpg/dburke/emerson.gif
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on December 2, 2006 at 6:26 AM
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Mneme,I want to learn french and Italian
posted by
Blanche.
on December 2, 2006 at 12:18 AM
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Sorry, B-l-a-n-c-h-e - I must be more cairful LOL
posted by
mneme
on December 2, 2006 at 12:10 AM
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Absolutely, Blance - how's your Italian? - got to go - fun chatting today, I'll check back later.
posted by
mneme
on December 2, 2006 at 12:09 AM
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Mneme, free tickets to the tour coordinators, would be nice.
Tuscany, Spain, I vote for the Mediterranean this time of year.
posted by
Blanche.
on December 1, 2006 at 11:53 PM
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I will, Blanche - maybe we can sell the idea to United and Qantas? Free tickets for inaugural members of course.
posted by
mneme
on December 1, 2006 at 11:47 PM
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Sign me up, Mneme, bookstore tour of great cities
with stops to pick up bloggers along the way.
posted by
Blanche.
on December 1, 2006 at 11:42 PM
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Blanche and Taps
(and anyone else who'd care to join) - wouldn't an "old books and bookstores" touring club be a great idea? International flights notwithstanding..
posted by
mneme
on December 1, 2006 at 11:37 PM
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TAPS and Mneme, the smell of old books, quiet browsing and reading
what could be more perfect? Longer fiction has to really grip me and I rarely read it on the blog, too much to read.
posted by
Blanche.
on December 1, 2006 at 11:34 PM
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Taps, it was a very good feeling; I've been reading some of it this afternoon.
posted by
mneme
on December 1, 2006 at 11:32 PM
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What a day it sounds like you had. Nothing I love doing more than browsing old books/book stores and drinking tea. What a find.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 1, 2006 at 11:30 PM
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Blanche,
me too - I became a fan of essays and memoirs from listening to NPR when I lived in NC for a while, and then doing English I actually liked writing assignments! Poetry is good, but longer fiction really has to grip me, or I don't stick with it.
posted by
mneme
on December 1, 2006 at 11:26 PM
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Mneme, a wonderful description of a perfect day, at least my idea of a
perfect day, a day spent among books, with good food and a good friend, what could be more perfect, except to find that one book which spoke to your heart? I have found myself drawn to memoirs and essays more and more and less to fiction.
posted by
Blanche.
on December 1, 2006 at 10:32 PM
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Thanks, Bhaskar.
yes, I have read this one - I did a paper on it once, and that whole Romantic period. Very interesting ideas, aren't they.
posted by
mneme
on December 1, 2006 at 10:10 PM
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oops - continuing, Tonyzonit..
you'll love this, as I was saying, before I was so rudely interrupted by a computer blip.. - what a thinker...
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand.
- Essay 1, History (First Series).
posted by
mneme
on December 1, 2006 at 10:07 PM
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Tonyzonit,
That's exactly the funof it - all that old knowledge just seems to be calling me, and I always find something. - you'll love this"
There is
posted by
mneme
on December 1, 2006 at 10:02 PM
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Hi Marie-Claire
yes, old books and chocolate are a favourite combination! Emerson was part philosopher/scholar, part poet, and wrote some delightful essays. The introduction says his 'message' concerned 'the ebb and flow of spiritual laws' and 'proclaimed the democracy of spirit,' so he was quite forward-thinking considering the New England religious climate of the time. Bhaksar's quote is from
The Poet. - OK, lecture over.
posted by
mneme
on December 1, 2006 at 9:55 PM
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I am glad you found what you wanted!
I love old book shops, any bookshops, and i always come out with a book in my hand of course. This is the place where i get tempted and yield in to temptation without much resistance usually. Ha, a good book and chocolate!
Don't know Emerson, just the name. Tell me what is in the book sometime, just a glimpse.
Enjoy your book!
posted by
marieclaire66
on December 1, 2006 at 4:09 PM
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Mneme, a shop full of old hardback books is an amazing feast for the eyes.
There's just so much knowledge there of days gone by. Amazing. And they often smell lovely as well...
posted by
Antonionioni
on December 1, 2006 at 12:50 PM
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mneme, Have you read this one?
In his
Essaya, Second series in 1844. It is not about "men of poetical talents, or of industry and skill in meter, but of the true poet."
The final lines in the essay read as follows:
- "Wherever snow falls or water flows or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble."
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on December 1, 2006 at 8:03 AM
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