Circulation just sent me this book, which apparently is actually the halves of TWO different books bound together accidentally by our commercial binder.
As far as I can tell, the first half of the book is “What we talk about when we talk about love" by Raymond Carver, and the second half is a book by Jilly Cooper, whose work we do not actually have listed in our library catalog. In other words, one of these books IS from our library, and the other is probably from some other library. So that means there might be another library book floating around with the first half of Jilly Cooper’s book, and another book with the last half of our copy of Raymond Carver’s book.
Sigh.
[ID: Three images. Top, a post-it note scrawled with the legend “The last chapter does not appear to belong to this book”. Beneath it is a photograph of the book being held open, showing the final chapter’s first page; the title on the page opposing it is different. Bottom image is just Jackie Chan looking confused and annoyed.]
It reminds me of the time I got a copy of “if on a winter’s night a traveler” by Italo Calvino, a book about incomplete books, for seventeen cents because it was missing two pages.
And also the time someone bought one of my books, but the publisher sent them my cover…wrapped around a typeset Harry Potter fanfic. But, crucially, not my Harry Potter fanfic.
When I worked at the bookstore, we had a woman come in, furious and ranting about “our hatred of religion.” Since my store had a pretty extensive religious studies section that was actually curated by an ex-Trappist monk with careful consideration to a lot of other religions, we were a bit surprised.
Turns out she’d bought a book from us called “The Proof of God” and due to a printing error, it was blank. The whole book, was just blank. She did not take this well.
We gave her a full refund. The ex-monk bought it for his collection.
We gave her a full
refund. The ex-monk bought it
for his collection.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
There are limitless bugs that are just the most gorgeous coolest looking creatures you could ever imagine. We live in a world so full of beauty that you will never be exhausted of it if you open your eyes to see.
Small selection of the millions of bugs that exist on Earth
Matrona cyanoptera
Calligrapha diversa
Parathona cayennensis
Thyreus decorus
Actiasrhodopneuma
Phyllomorpha lacerata
Agrioglypta excelsalis
Chromacris colorata
Agapanthia amurensis
Nemoptera sinuata
Imagine how elevated our characters designs could be if we all looked at more bugs…it would form awesome inspirations for cloaks, armor, helmets and various fashion
A skillful display of an unusual instrument: The Theremin. An electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer | source
“I’m picking up good vibrations,it’s giving me excitations.”
this edit is fantastic but i also need people to know the original text says “what’s to keep me from becoming a god” which is pretty high up there in terms of funniest things for a child to say upon realizing he has free will
I can’t believe Aperture actually had a god damn play place/daycare type shit and naturally it couldn’t look less safe
Wasn’t the blue goo the bounce goo? Look where that broken railing is… Child spared outta there at mach 2
Environmental storytelling
I can’t help but imagine Aperture and Fazbear Entertainment teaming up and making the most unsafe place on the planet, since both probably see OSHA regulations as a polite suggestion.
One of the head canons @energeticwiseguy and I had was that at some point between the Byte of 87 and the Neurotoxin incident Aperture acquired Fazbear Entertainment’s A.I. technology to apply to their own project.
“There is no one Christian concept of sin” is a wild concept. Like no, there is, it’s in the Nicene Creed and it’s certainly your right to reject the Nicene Creed but doing so more or less means by definition you’re so far outside of the Christian mainstream that experts consider your religion something else
The only people who reject any part of the Nicene Creed while considering themselves Christians are members of NRMs/cults, Mormons, kinda silly unitarians, and the ignorant
I guess Jehovah’s Witnesses reject the NC but I already mentioned cults
Critically, with the exception of unitarians and the ignorant, none of these groups reject the concept of original sin or the requirement of a relationship with Jesus to avoid punishment in the afterlife for original sin. Closest it gets is the Mormons, who believe you go to a worse heaven for not worshipping Jesus correctly, again because of original sin iirc
A large part of the problem with comparative religion in everyday conversation is that members of the Christian monoculture get to play Calvinball with what their religion involves and represents. You genuinely cannot say you don’t believe in sin and repentance on any level and then turn around and tell me this is a theologically mainstream position in your global jesus cult. The nuns that beat my grandpa as a small child for being left-handed would at the very least beg to differ, and admittedly they’re a little dead to beat you up over it, but still
Richard Siken continues to kill it on twitter. He just explained why his poetry is so popular in tumblr graphics - “you can take any of my quotes and apply them to any fandom or picture and they will work because they are sad and mopey and full of longing” and then proceeded to demonstrate this. With cat pictures. With lines of his poetry slightly altered to be lol cat speak.
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