Diary

I hope you didn't borrow the book from the library. Once Joe Orton had discovered this strategy his career went wildly off-track.
They do fit beautifully. I am sick with envy.

I used to visit the library. Then the already inadequate number of books diminished year by year as audio and visual media, and photocopiers, and computer terminals, supplanted them. Now I am told by those who still frequent it that it has become so noisy that you cannot hear yourself think. As for your kind comment on my picture: thank you. You have no cause to be sick, however. Not after the blue drawer triumph. It is a tour de force. Thank you for adding my three lines as a description. I am honoured.

Your lines fit perfectly. They are in that drawer
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As for libraries... the bottom-line, for me, is that they should continue to exist. I feel nostalgia for that time when my local library was the place where my education and imagination could extend beyond the dullness of school, but I think they could be unwelcoming and stuffy at the same time.

My local library has computers which are always busy, but people still seem to understand the tradition of library quiet. Books, as you say, are shrinking from the shelves. I asked once if I could donate some poetry books to the almost empty poetry section...Yes, they said, but they would go to some central point and be distributed across all the city libraries. That put me off
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I still hope that by coming in to use a computer people might look at the books and try them...along with the CD's, etc.