There's something truly interesting about libraries. The sort of dust and silence ambience goes in there somehow, of course, but that's not entirely it
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Heeee, reading about this made me smile, it sounds like a really sweet letter :DD I claim guilty to the same kind of voyeurism, especially as far as letters go, though I've never been quite so lucky as you just did. I love finding dedications, or even just names written in fountain pen with a schoolchildren-like handwriting, in second-hand books, and always wonder about them. :)) I remember we had one book with a whole paragraph of dedication, something like "with love, to my favourite girl to celebrate" something, and I couldn't figure out why they'd sell the book. There's quite a lot of fun to be had in reading the graffitis left on school desks, too, though often you have to squint and tilt your head to decipher them. ;D
please pardon the character journal...justice_by_comaJuly 12 2010, 21:19:34 UTC
I saw a truly amazing desktop graffiti which I tooka shot of with my phone, once, in college. It was this incredibly intricate little tear-drop-shaped maze of patterns and symbols fixed around a central word: "boredom". Naturally, I'm most dismayed when I can't find a way to get pictures off my phone and online. I still ahve it, technically, and I'd love if I could show you...
It's a pretty cute, awkward letter. Very sweet. I'll definitely be transcribing it, then, awkward shifts of phrase and everything. It opens, "You don't know how glad i am that i creepishly smiled at you on like the 2nd week of science class." And if that isn't cute, I don't know what is. It's very sweet precisely because it's trying so hard not to sound like it's trying hard.
damn clicked "post" too soonazalee_calypsoJuly 12 2010, 22:21:23 UTC
There was a full conversation scratched into a desk in the science lab, at least three different people discussing the science teacher's hotness. (One even my mom found hot...) Then, on a wall on the way from the station to my school in London, there was a big, colored but simple one, I think it was a poem verse or something, I can't remember what it said exactly despite walking in front of it at least 10 times a week, just that it was pretty cute.
D'aaaawwwwwwwwwwww. ♥ If/When (knowing you I'm betting on "when" ;D) you do transcribe it I'd looove to see it ♥
Yet another thing I'm not alone in. lol Uhhh... Usualy I have a habit of finding cards. I have a Bleach Zangetsu card and an old Goosebumps trading card that I found in library books. I also once found a photo. Just stuff people used as bookmarks. Usualy all I find is the little sheets that they give you there to tell you which books you checked out and when their due back. ^.^; But I've found other stuff. Never a letter before though. If I did, I'd probaly keep it too though...
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I remember we had one book with a whole paragraph of dedication, something like "with love, to my favourite girl to celebrate" something, and I couldn't figure out why they'd sell the book.
There's quite a lot of fun to be had in reading the graffitis left on school desks, too, though often you have to squint and tilt your head to decipher them. ;D
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Naturally, I'm most dismayed when I can't find a way to get pictures off my phone and online. I still ahve it, technically, and I'd love if I could show you...
It's a pretty cute, awkward letter. Very sweet.
I'll definitely be transcribing it, then, awkward shifts of phrase and everything. It opens, "You don't know how glad i am that i creepishly smiled at you on like the 2nd week of science class." And if that isn't cute, I don't know what is. It's very sweet precisely because it's trying so hard not to sound like it's trying hard.
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Then, on a wall on the way from the station to my school in London, there was a big, colored but simple one, I think it was a poem verse or something, I can't remember what it said exactly despite walking in front of it at least 10 times a week, just that it was pretty cute.
D'aaaawwwwwwwwwwww. ♥ If/When (knowing you I'm betting on "when" ;D) you do transcribe it I'd looove to see it ♥
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I'll get on transcribing it for you~ (Maybe I'll just send it in email. The internet's pretty public after all, and I feel kind of bad...)
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