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Monthly Archives: May 2007

Trophies Atrophy

I’m trying to kill my library. Not the Fayetteville Public Library, my own stash. They sag shelves in the living room, dining room, sunporch, office, two bedrooms and the laundry room of our manse, Shady Hill. We’ve lived here eight years, and it’s time for painting the walls, even behind the books. A gallon or [...]

More Elements of Style

Some books are so indispensable that you own them, even in the Internet age. Some books are so valuable that if one is misplaced you’ll replace it. This must have happened with The Elements of Style, which my generation called “the Strunk and White” for E.B. White, who in 1957 “tampered” slightly with the self-published [...]