Garfunkel's reading.

Yay! Art Garfunkel read some PG Wodehouse - listed as 'Jeeves in the Morning', though my copy of that text is called 'Joy in the Morning' - in October 2001. I have a list of all the books Art Garfunkel has read over the past 30 years and when precisely he read them. It's on his website. I suppose he keeps it in order to show off to the general public, because he obviously reads well and like fury, but I don't mind if it drops nuggets of that description. I'm impressed that in a single month he managed to read Tristram Shandy plus two Other Things. A reading of Tristram Shandy would be the work of a year for me.

Also he read three of Aristophanes' plays in 2004. Go him.

Garfunkel's reading.

Yay! Art Garfunkel read some PG Wodehouse - listed as 'Jeeves in the Morning', though my copy of that text is called 'Joy in the Morning' - in October 2001. I have a list of all the books Art Garfunkel has read over the past 30 years and when precisely he read them. It's on his website. I suppose he keeps it in order to show off to the general public, because he obviously reads well and like fury, but I don't mind if it drops nuggets of that description. I'm impressed that in a single month he managed to read Tristram Shandy plus two Other Things. A reading of Tristram Shandy would be the work of a year for me.

Also he read three of Aristophanes' plays in 2004. Go him.

Precious bodily fluids.

I haven't had the pleasure of roaming loose in a second-hand bookshop with the intention of spending money that ought really to go on more sensible purposes for some time, but when this joyous occasion took place in days of yore, I always used to head straight for the medical section. There are few things I enjoy more than reading pre-WW2 home doctor books. They say the most astonishingly incorrect things. It probably wasn't half as funny at the time. But still.

I have about half a dozen. One is actually a medical journal and is full of wonderful adverts for stethoscopes and liver pills. One is bound in brown cloth with gilt bands. Far and away my favourite is my oldest text, the 72nd edition of, to give it its full title, 'The People's Common Sense Medical Advisor in Plain English, or Medicine Simplified' (1909), by the famous and slightly notorious R.V. Pierce MD.

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Precious bodily fluids.

I haven't had the pleasure of roaming loose in a second-hand bookshop with the intention of spending money that ought really to go on more sensible purposes for some time, but when this joyous occasion took place in days of yore, I always used to head straight for the medical section. There are few things I enjoy more than reading pre-WW2 home doctor books. They say the most astonishingly incorrect things. It probably wasn't half as funny at the time. But still.

I have about half a dozen. One is actually a medical journal and is full of wonderful adverts for stethoscopes and liver pills. One is bound in brown cloth with gilt bands. Far and away my favourite is my oldest text, the 72nd edition of, to give it its full title, 'The People's Common Sense Medical Advisor in Plain English, or Medicine Simplified' (1909), by the famous and slightly notorious R.V. Pierce MD.

( Read more... )