{"id":253,"date":"2011-08-01T18:50:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T00:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=253"},"modified":"2011-08-01T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T01:03:19","slug":"august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"August"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s empty; the second one.\u00a0 And, it’s out the door.\u00a0 I also sent books hither and yon and I have many more to take to thrift stores.\u00a0 I am firm in my resolve to buy no books in the next year; however, I did pull a few out of the boxes and I have them to read.\u00a0 The choices are interesting.\u00a0 What do I choose out of 500+ books?\u00a0 If you had to list 25 favorite books; or books you want to read; or books you want to buy…what would they be?\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I kept several books by Orhan Pamuk and as assortment of Turkish authors.\u00a0 I kept a few “trashy” reads.\u00a0 I kept three by Steinbeck.\u00a0 I kept a couple of Pulitzer Prize winners.<\/p>\n

And, I sent some absolute favorites on.\u00a0 Richard Brautigan books.\u00a0 I have had them since I was 19 or 20.\u00a0 I decided to put them up on Bookmooch, so that people who wanted them would get them.\u00a0 They were gone in minutes.\u00a0 Poetry.\u00a0 Simple.\u00a0 Sensual.\u00a0 Visual.<\/p>\n

San Francisco by Richard Brautigan<\/div>\n
This poem was found written on a paper bag by Richard
\nBrautigan in a laundromat in San Francisco. The author is unknown.<\/div>\n
By accident, you put
\nYour money in my
\nMachine (#4)
\nBy accident, I put
\nMy money in another
\nMachine (#6)
\nOn purpose, I put
\nYour clothes in the
\nEmpty machine full
\nOf water and no
\nClothes<\/div>\n
\n

It was lonely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s empty; the second one.\u00a0 And, it’s out the door.\u00a0 I also sent books hither and yon and I have many more to take to thrift stores.\u00a0 I am firm in my resolve to buy no books in the next … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}