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H.P. Lovecraft Answers Your Relationship Questions →
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A change has overcome my husband. He likes to pore over forbidden manuscripts, and often returns home late, giving the excuse that he has been attending debauches in a neighboring swamp. So why am I never invited? —Sulking
Dear Sulking:
I have been under a great nervous strain since reading your words, which I feel brought me to the brink of an ultra-dimensional realm of...
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Nay, tell me how you class your wealth of books, The drifted relics of all time. As well sort them at once by size and livery: Vellum, tall copies, and the common calf Will hardly cover more diversity Than all your labels cunningly devised To class your unread authors.
George Eliot, Middlemarch, chapter 13.
My library will cross the 1000 mark soon. And every book is indexed in a spreadsheet...
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“Excuse me, mamma — I wish you would not say, ‘the pick of them.’”
“Why, what else are they?”
“I mean, mamma, it is rather a vulgar expression.”
“Very likely, my dear; I never was a good speaker. What should I say?”
“The best of them.”
“Why, that seems just as plain and common. If I had had time to think, I should...
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