Word: bookshelf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another ad in this vein epitomizes the bizarre uses of literature as a commodity. It advertises Glenlivet, a brand of whisky. The ad portrays a tiny man climbing up on a bookshelf trying to reach a bottle of Glenlivet which has been lined up with leather-bound books and which, with its elegant, dark green bottle and carefully calligraphied label, fits right in. The books on the shelf have strange titles like Size Dification in Humans and The Case of the Shrinking...
...graffitti was scrawled over a bookshelf in the station--a shelf that is also the only unsupervised public library in the country. There is no librarian, no checkout, no catalog. Passengers may take books off the shelf at any time, read them, and return them at their convenience...
Late into the night Dewitt struggles, working without pause on the far side of the rotating bookshelf that hides his laboratory. Occasionally he may pause for a brief demonic cackle, but apart from that it's work, work, work...
...question is whether it will be opened before it gets there. The collection of essays will most likely travel directly from shopping bag to airplane seat to coffee table to Harvard memorial bookshelf and a place of esteem next to Erich Segal's The Class, last year's reunion volume. Alums should do themselves a favor by giving The Class another read and leaving this 350th momento to collect dust...
...question is whether it will be opened before it gets there. The collection of essays will most likely travel directly from shopping bag to airplane seat to coffee table to Harvard memorial bookshelf and a place of esteem next to Erich Segal's Class, last year's reunion volume. Alums should do themselves a favor by giving Class another read and leaving this 350th momento to collect dust...