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Thursday, September 12, 2002
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Re: Liv's take on 9/11 -- http://www.livslife.blogspot.com/
I don't think there is a right or wrong way to respond in terms of degree of eloquence, depth, etc. I thought what Liv said was one of the most genuine responses that I have heard. Using some honest scholarship and arcane information I felt compelled to add the following: "And what is wrong with hiding in bed covering your head with a pillow? There was an entire order of knights in the Middle Ages that did exactly that -- The Knights Pillowrs. In order to advance through the ranks, the knights had to come up with more and more creatively designed pillows. The order was dissolved when a facsimile of the Pope (in natural size, I might add) won the order's yearly competition of the most pious pillow (Pillum Pium) -- a detailed description of the incident is given by the noted Medieval scholar Leopold Frunze in his "Minor Knightly Orders of the Late Middle Ages," Mount Tabor, Ltd., 1959. "
2:25:36 PM 
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And now on a lighter note...
I feel that the last couple of entries have somewhat grim. While today's anniversary requires a certain amount of gravity, we can't be all walking with the stooped expressions of the octogenarian members of some sort of Communist Party Central Committee.
I loved Kat Donohue's entry from yesterday: http://blogs.salon.com/0001068/2002/09/11.html Julie Andrews like, she enumerates some of her favorite things. What appealed to me most of all was the totally irreverent honesty of the list. It could have been enumerated by Tom Robbins' heroine from "Another Roadside Attraction." The immediate benefit I derived from the said list was a removal from the oppressive darkness which I have been writing about for the last two days, and a raising of a similar question – what would be the silliest and most irrelevant thing that I find crucial? The obvious answer is book smelling. Virtually all Soviet books that were published roughly from the early 50’s through the late 70’s had the same glue applied to them. That particular smell is one of the first things I remember with distinction. So, at this point I can distinguish old Modern American Library, from University presses, and old Random house from an Everyman (a making of a game-show anyone? Nah, probably not). Used book stores do provide one with a field day in that respect. I found only one other person who has a similar interest. At a party at my house we spent a good 15 minutes in an olfactory investigation of my library.
8:30:53 AM
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