Book Porn

[AllyRose]

I have no words for how wonderful that is. If I had discovered that place as a child I would never have left.

If you had to choose... which sign would you follow?

 

[DesEsseintes]

If you had to choose... which sign would you follow?

Tir Na Los or the Shire - the former because I know so little about Irish myth and it fascinates me, and the Shire because it is one of the most perfectly realized worlds I know.

But most of all, I think, I would like to travel to The Culture galaxy.

Or maybe just stay in the library/bookshop and chat to the person who made that sign, forever and ever. That mind would contain multitudes.

What would be your choice?

 

[AllyRose]

Tir Na Los or the Shire - the former because I know so little about Irish myth and it fascinates me, and the Shire because it is one of the most perfectly realized worlds I know.

But most of all, I think, I would like to travel to The Culture galaxy.

Or maybe just stay in the library/bookshop and chat to the person who made that sign, forever and ever. That mind would contain multitudes.

What would be your choice?

The Shire.

 

[DesEsseintes]

The Shire.

What if it were saved - but not for you?

 

[AllyRose]

What if it were saved - but not for you?

Then I'd hope to have a ticket to the Undying Lands.

 

[Mr Noone]

Tir Na Los or the Shire...

I think that's Tír na nÓg, in the old Irish lettering, uncial. What appears to be an "L" in the photo is actually the butt-end of an arrow pointed away from the camera. It means "land of [eternal] youth", the Celtic Valhalla or Elysium. Beyond (or under) the western sea. I live there.

~ Óisín Noone

 

[DesEsseintes]

I think that's Tír na nÓg, in the old Irish lettering, uncial. What appears to be an "L" in the photo is actually the butt-end of an arrow pointed away from the camera. It means "land of [eternal] youth", the Celtic Valhalla or Elysium. Beyond (or under) the western sea. I live there.

~ Óisín Noone

Ah, of course - I ought to have known from The Hounds of The Morrigan. It does look like an L, though, you are right.

 

[Mr Noone]

Ah, of course - I ought to have known from The Hounds of The Morrigan. It does look like an L, though, you are right.

Gabriel Byrne did a lovely film called "Into the West" about a traveller family living in a block of flats which featured a magical horse called Tír na nÓg. And of course the mythic west (and all it implies) even rears it's head in Joyce's "The Dead". Molly Ivors drags that Gabriel's mind there.

 

[Equinoxe]

Then I'd hope to have a ticket to the Undying Lands.

Yes, though despite being the Undying Lands, you would still die. Aman always struck me as rather boring, actually; one of the things that always bothered me about The Silmarillion, besides Tolkien's unhealthy obsession with the word 'doom', was that the Valar were only right because the author said so. Which is a side effect of his being a devout Catholic, I suppose—you can have a Devil, but God and His Angels must be good and pure and true.

 

[AllyRose]

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[Fata Morgana]

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

Jean Paul Sartre

 

[Fata Morgana]

Gabriel Byrne did a lovely film called "Into the West" about a traveller family living in a block of flats which featured a magical horse called Tír na nÓg. And of course the mythic west (and all it implies) even rears it's head in Joyce's "The Dead". Molly Ivors drags that Gabriel's mind there.

My second favourite film in the world. Which I'm sure I've told you a gazillion times.

 

[oggbashan]

Last week I bought a box of books at my local auction for £3.30.

They were 18 books about Cricket, but they all have the bookplate of E W Swanton and his personal annotations.

Cricket porn!

 

[Fata Morgana]

Last week I bought a box of books at my local auction for £3.30.

They were 18 books about Cricket, but they all have the bookplate of E W Swanton and his personal annotations.

Cricket porn!

You always drop lucky with stuff like that don't you!

 

[oggbashan]

You always drop lucky with stuff like that don't you!

Yes, this time.

Most of the time it is knowing what I am looking at.

 

[where_is_RUTH]

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[ChattyAnnie]

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[Hard_Rom]

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Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits -- and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread, -- and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness --
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

 

[where_is_RUTH]

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[Fata Morgana]

Check out Nigella's library. Stunning.
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[Wild_Honey_66]

ahhh, books!

*inhales deeply*

 

[where_is_RUTH]

....... unoriginal

 

[where_is_RUTH]

whats the morse code for fuck off

 

[anticipation08]

I don't have a pic to share, but this thread totally turns me on. Sneaking around in a library is kinda one of my big fantasies.

 

[AllyRose]

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