Stanton's Inferno

Wednesday, 27 January 2016

Canto XII - The Moody Fens of Incoherence...

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There is a presumption that is visited upon every person who walks into a bookshop – that they can read. Having passed through the porta...
Friday, 25 December 2015

Oedipus & the Sphinx - 2

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And again, this is true. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up... Merry Christmas!
Friday, 18 December 2015

Canto XI - The River Lethe

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Okay. Here comes a customer: they look slightly dazed but happy, as if they’re in the aftermath of some light head trauma. They wander up t...
Saturday, 12 December 2015

Canto X - The Glassy Plain

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Recently I attended an examination of a private collection of books with a view to making purchases for the shop. The seller had an i...
Saturday, 28 November 2015

Canto IX - The Impasse

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There is one eternal truism that takes place in the world of selling books – and, I assume, other areas of retail activity also – that ...
Friday, 31 July 2015

Oedipus & the Sphinx...

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I’ve been wrestling with this notion for awhile and trying to put it into some sort of context which would make sense. I guess the be...
Thursday, 16 July 2015

Canto VIII - The Well-packed Plateau of the Shelf-Stuffers

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It is a central plank of various theories of physics that matter cannot co-exist in the exact same space. That is, two objects cannot o...
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