Abe Books E-mail Database Hacked

AbeBooks E-mail Database Hacked

It figures that a remaining sense of dignity we have in this country - books, and good books, and people who read, and people who read good books by great authors on great topics published by well-sighted publishers, then sold by good (or greedy) booksellers, and on and on - would be the victims of potential identity theft, or at minimum an invasion into their privacy.

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Read about this (story that's available and linked to this wonderful, not so new, blog I just discovered,  dedicated to books and book-related news that I just discovered and was instantly hooked like [way too many "things that are hooked" entries in the blogosphere..., so here's my own go at defying the cliche] indoor hanging plants, winter coats on rainy days, and a single person in chronic pain to their pain meds, couch, and TV.


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Sunday Quote, from a Sunday Poem

An April Sunday brings the snow
Making the blossom on the plum trees green,
Not white. An hour or two, and it will go.
-Philip Larkin


And here's another poem by Larkin, perhaps his most famously popular poem, written in a completely different tone, almost planetarily so (which perhaps explains the plethora Web pages of analysis dedicated to this poem), that befits my state of mind...

 

THIS BE THE VERSE

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.

  They may not mean to, but they do.

They fill you with the faults they had

   And add some extra, just for you. 

This is an image of the 1st Edition Printing

But they were fucked up in their turn

   By fools in old-style hats and coats,

Who half the time were soppy-stern

   And half at one another's throats. 

Man hands on misery to man.

   It deepens like a coastal shelf.

Get out as early as you can,

   And don't have any kids yourself 




THIS BE THE VERSE was first published in the August 1971
issue of New Humanist, and appeared in the 1974 collection
High Windows, as pictured at right. 

You can help save books, poetry, and maybe me - though it's a long shot - 
all at the same time by purchasing your own brand new copy... 

or maybe find yourself a first edition at...

MelanieMiller'nSuch_HighWindows.com



SOURCE:
An_April_Sunday_brings_the_snow_Making_the. Dictionary.com. Columbia World of Quotations. Columbia University Press, 1996. http://quotes.dictionary.com/An_April_Sunday_brings_the_snow_Making_the (accessed: April 03, 2011).