Dear Leland,

It belongs next to Stearn. I think the shared theory is that to preserve 
historic context one should tear it down and rebuild. Can't send you 
mine... can't find it.

About 2 years ago I had 2 library books that were late on being 
returned. I was getting notices in the mail... which always drives me 
nuts. I found the books and was walking towards the door to return them 
when something interrupted my direction and I set them down. I was not 
able to find them again until a month ago. Since I felt so damned guilty 
for losing the library books I did not go to the local library, a fairly 
good one in fact, for the last two years. Once I found them... and they 
were always in view within three feet of my writing desk, if one only 
had the eyes to see them... I held on to them and moved them around very 
cautiously until I got up the gumption to go to the library to confess 
and return them. I figured it would be an ordeal -- one of those 
encounters in which you get your hands slapped and there is major 
retribution. I was shocked that not only were they very nice to me but 
it only cost $2.00 to clean up. They updated my library card at the same 
time. I got hooked as a kid on buying books, and now have way too many 
of them for any sane person, because I was always late returning them to 
the library and figured the best practice would be to just purchase them 
and be done with it. Kathy thinks I buy and bring them home in order to 
appease the Book God. I've been trying to cut back but a trip to the 
Ketchum Inn book barn or the Salvation Army will always hook me.

One of my perennial characters lives in an RV next to his house because 
the house is so full of books that he cannot live in the house.

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Leland Torrence wrote:

>Dang!  And I thought you'd joined me in the shadows: Lurk ][< Walker.
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