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Old 07-05-2013, 03:42 PM   #2149
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Fill that trunk with some known "old" good reads while you wait. 15 or 20 years or more, maybe.

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...er...that's not a trunk, but instead it's a somewhat large and unusual book containing a bottomless chamber...or a portal to one, instead of pages. Please further define "old" "good" books, possibly including a couple of examples? Oh, and thanks for the K!


Sorry. Perhaps that is one of those "you had to have been there, to understand."

In my youth, I was in the military service. We many times lived out of wooden or metal foot lockers (trunks would be the term most would recognize) at the foot of our bunk and duffles (canvas bags - check out the "Man of Steel" movie) tied or locked to the frame of the bed. They contained all we owned or used except for some "serial numbered issue items" that were sometimes locked in racks.

Your picture of the "book" and the man peering into it reminded me of that.
As for your: "define "old" "good" books, possibly including a couple of examples?" I was looking for something and saw a bin of Modesitt books that I read years ago, and I went through two of them again to answer a question in my mind about the history of the Recluse series.

... and you are welcome. Thank you for your efforts.
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