..and 'bearded bag lady on a bike' chic is not in this year?
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OT: which bookshop?
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Posted 4 years ago #
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@urchaidh
That siren you can hear is the fashion police.
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@urchaidh you take that back. Most bag ladies know that panniers are far superior to some sort of metal cart.
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Sittin about an readin an stuff instead of goin outside and causin trouble as Just William would say.?
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some sort of metal cart
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Will the one in porty open before toppings? It does have a chance. I nearly bought sunset song in the Golden Hare the other day, we have a Scots quair somewhere in the house with photo of Chris Guthrie on the cover aff the telly.
Alas despite the new cover the book still had the ancient typeface that is a real stretch to read.
I do want to buy A Confederacy of Dunces after waiting 6 months for it to arrive at the library van outside work in the first week of my hols.
Good ole library transferred it up to Balerno. Unlikely I will read it in 3 weeks tho but.
Edinburgh bookshops and bike shops about same number?
In my head you might want to have a coffee shop combined with a bookshop and open like 9am to 9pm to maximise your lease? WTF do I know tho. Did not work for Ronde. Did they just sell bikes and coffees but not do repairs?
Posted 4 years ago # -
Edinburgh bookshops and bike shops about same number?
OpenStreetMap (usual caveats apply) has 38 bookshops in Edinburgh and 39 bike shops.
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Cheers @Frenchy, I was like guessing. Did not think the figures would be quite as high.
Second hand bookshops and bike shops in the total I assume.
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Aye. Also bike repair places.
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I do want to buy A Confederacy of Dunces
Was just thinking of tracking down my yellowed copy now that I have wallowed in Lanark.
I have never dared read the Neon Bible.
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I gave up on Confederacy Of Dunces halfway through. Just couldn’t get into it.
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Ignatius J Reilly's plastic cutlass is an invention of genius. In the pantheon of literary weapons it is up there with Humbert Humbert's gun Chum.
In my mind I sometimes start corporate e-mails 'Dear M*******d'.
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A Confederacy of Dunces, one of the few books I was laughing out loud throughout.
John Kennedy O'Toole's personal story is rather tragic though. After failing to find a publisher for his book, he eventually committed suicide. His mother persisted and his comic genius was finally recognised, alas too late for the author.
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I think I will persist. I did with Don Quixote. (On a holiday over Xmas 1989 in Malta). THere is a MTB place in La Mancha over the pentlands there called Don Coyote.
What I like about confederacy of dunces so far
Title from Jonathan Swift
His mum is already bored by the story of Ignatius’s one trip outside New Orleans to Baton Rouge
John Kennedy Toole’s mother persisted in getting the book published 11 years after his death (the forward from Walker Percy about how she insisted he read the book is also great)
There is a very grumpy barman (sorry cant serve you, no more clean glasses - he has been listening to them bitching)
The movie versions have most of your favourite big lads cast as Ignatius
Belushi, Candy, Galifakias, Goodman.
That project is however cursed.
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IWRATS' two funniest scenes in literature;
1) Humbert Humbert's assassination of Quilty.
2) The cat scene in Don Quixote.Posted 4 years ago # -
One of my favourite-ever books, "A Confederacy of Dunces". Little did I know when I first read it that in the years to come, my sister would marry a New Orleans native and that I'd visit the place for her wedding as the cruise ship she worked on sailed out from there.
My highlight of the visit was unexepectedly stumbling across a statue of Ignatius, outside the former Holmes department store: (from Wikipedia) "A bronze statue of Ignatius J. Reilly can be found under the clock on the down-river side of the 800 block of Canal Street, New Orleans, the former site of the D. H. Holmes Department Store, now the Hyatt French Quarter Hotel. The statue mimics the opening scene: Ignatius waits for his mother under the D.H. Holmes clock, clutching a Werlein's shopping bag, dressed in a hunting cap, flannel shirt, baggy pants and scarf, 'studying the crowd of people for signs of bad taste.'"
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Could A Confederacy of Dunces join PV Glob's The Bog People as a CCE gateway text?
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@threefromleith, the statue modelled on a New Orleans actor (from wiki) John Spud McConnell
The sun cannot set at the end of canal street etc
I am guessing the whole thing sags a little after very strong start. Recommended by Billy Connolly at Xmas hence the six month wait at the library van
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Alasdair Gray died this morning.
https://canongate.co.uk/news/alasdair-gray-author-and-artist-has-died-aged-85/
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very good innings, all things considered
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I couldn't get into A Confederacy of Dunces. Ignatius struck me as the prototype for Sheldon Cooper. Sad about Alasdair Gray. I enjoyed Lanark.
IWRATS, I can't remember the cat scene. Was that in the first book?
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RIP Old Al
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Another one coming
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We're too excited to keep this quiet and just had to let you know! We've just got confirmation that we will be moving into 179-181 Great Junction Street (near the bottom of Leith Walk). We get the keys next week and will be opening on 1st October!
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https://twitter.com/edicommbookshop/status/1555593427726786561
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