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Saturday, October 16, 2004

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"but PIGS are supposed to be more like humans than CATS are!"


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I work in information technology, teach at a local university, and have an on-line store selling book-related stuff.


My picture is a cut from Arnold Lobel's popular "Books to the Ceiling" nursery rhyme from his book *Whiskers and Rhymes*. The verse is:


Books to the ceiling, books to the sky.
My piles of books are a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
I'll have a long beard my the time I read them.


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The love of learning,
the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.

≈ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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My books
surround me,
enlighten and astound me,
protect me, and connect me
to the universe
around me.


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Twenty-six letters, a solid foundation.
Throw in some squiggles to add punctuation.
Not very many, I'm sure you'll agree.
So, what can we build with these?
Well, let's just see.

Letters make words, punctuation makes pauses.
Finely-tuned rhythms of phrases and clauses,
Sentences, paragraphs, fill up the pages.
Books fill up libraries - thoughts through the ages.
Ideas and concepts, philosophies grow.
How many are there?
I really don't know!

Twenty-six letters, in pixels or ink.
Not very many, but enough, don't you think?


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"I am whelmed by your eptness."


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