TRYING TO SALVAGE
After years of storing my books in trunks, closets and attics, I have finally appropriated a room for my 'study library' . Little pretentious but I am preening like the Indian peacock in the earlier blog. What luxury! I have four six racks and have to organise the albums and letters as well as the books. Nearly 50 copies of Imprint magazine saved for 40 years with wonderful features and stories of Ruskin Bond, Dom Moraes, Ved Mehta etc. The pages are fragile ready to crumble but I know how to handle them, in a way like my own life.
Looking at these relics i experience sharp twinges of pain. Where are 'The Egg & I , Onions in the Stew, Cactus Flower , All This & Heaven Too!.
I come across the dismembered cover of 'Snake Pit' that I had read at sixteen. Wish I could read it again. Well If I cannot visit the Himalayas every year, go on the Trans Siberian Railway, drive thro' the Hind Kush Mountains, witness the migration of the Wildebeaste, I can now retire to my library
and embark on the most rewarding of travels, the roads to ideas and words.
After years of storing my books in trunks, closets and attics, I have finally appropriated a room for my 'study library' . Little pretentious but I am preening like the Indian peacock in the earlier blog. What luxury! I have four six racks and have to organise the albums and letters as well as the books. Nearly 50 copies of Imprint magazine saved for 40 years with wonderful features and stories of Ruskin Bond, Dom Moraes, Ved Mehta etc. The pages are fragile ready to crumble but I know how to handle them, in a way like my own life.
Looking at these relics i experience sharp twinges of pain. Where are 'The Egg & I , Onions in the Stew, Cactus Flower , All This & Heaven Too!.
I come across the dismembered cover of 'Snake Pit' that I had read at sixteen. Wish I could read it again. Well If I cannot visit the Himalayas every year, go on the Trans Siberian Railway, drive thro' the Hind Kush Mountains, witness the migration of the Wildebeaste, I can now retire to my library
Unforgettable Literary Pairs
Jody Tiflin & Gabilan: The Red Pony
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