The last posted so far.
I hope she keeps this up! I do wonder why Martin doesn't read them
first and send them back for rewrite,pointing out all the places she
conflicts even with her own self, though!
On 15 May 2008 10:36:35 -0400, "Martin Shackelford"
<mshack4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>the gray book:
>At U LA, if you didn't know the name of a book, you couldn't get it
brought
>down...not knowing what was up there, i could not ask for it...the
library
>under reconstruction and elevators not working, i was confined to the
first
>floor for a year....
>[Louis] Girdler asked the librarian specifically for a book with "The
Queen
>of Spades" in it and she described it....but he's such a silly goose, as
he
>didn't require her to find a book written in russian...my bad back made
it
>impossible to climb the many stairs to the fourth or fifth
>floor...impossible... but what's im****tant is that the ONLY Russian
Pushkin
>they had up there with the requisite short story the Queen of Spades--had
a
>RED cover. I described, as you know, a gray cover. Furthermore, the red
>cover was a hardback, not floppy.
>
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