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Hal ([personal profile] libertango) wrote2003-10-02 11:44 pm

"A No Doubt Mad Idea"

...which will probably lead to another post about "influential" books, eventually, but for now, this:

"On to the library. And all through his time at the card catalog, combing the shelves, filling out the request cards, he danced a silent, flirtatious minuet of the eyes with a rosy-cheeked redhead in the biology section, pages of notes spread before her. All his life, he had had a yen for women in libraries. In a cerebral setting, the physical becomes irresistible. Also, he figured he was really more likely to meet a better or at least more compatible woman in a library than in a saloon. Ought to have singles libraries, with soups and salads, Bach and Mozart, Montaignes bound in morocco; place to sip, smoke, and seduce in a classical setting, noon to midnight. Chaucer's Salons, call them, franchise chain."

[identity profile] marykaykare.livejournal.com 2003-10-03 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh golly. I would so have loved to have a place like that to go to! I probably still would.

MKK