i found this hard cover copy of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde from 1946 yesterday. i love old stinky books. i inherited from my great aunt her massive book collection, and the best one by far is this old medical encyclopedia. it's so old the title's worn off the front cover, the binding is gone and it's missing the first 30 pages or so, so i have no idea what it's called, what edition it is and what year it was printed, but in the "alcoholism, treament of" entry it says "Very little can be done for the habitual drunkard". so that's that.

i love old objects of any kind. i look at them and stare and wonder and suddenly a scene comes to life around the object, a scene i imagine might have happened back in the object's days of newness. imagine who read my medical encyclopedia, who needed to know that very little can be done for the habitual drunkard and other such medical tales?

surfing blogger for a while, reading other people's drivel. i'm bookmarking the ones that sounded like me at one point in time or another, eventually i'll be able to put together, in chronological order, a string of blogs that represent how i wrote and what i wrote about at different points in my life. why? i dunno if anyone's done that before. i'm a pioneer.

some things i should probably mention about this blog. i don't believe in spellcheck, the subconscious is a powerful thing and if it wanted me to spell receipt r-e-c-i-e-p-t, there's got to be good reason. i also believe in very little punctuation and have all but eliminated the exclamation - i think it's overused and ruining almost everything i have to read (doesn't make me like the new band "!!!" - how pretentious a name is that? it's NOT a name). i save it only for the things i am truly exclaiming. i don't do smilies and am under no circumstances objective.

i sit at this computer way too much. maybe i'll go to the buck n' ear, have a beer, play some pool.

posted by Courtney at 9:13 p.m.

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