As We Walk in Fields of Gold

[princeofcairo]

Apologies for the delay on this entry, and for repurposing Sting lyrics for the title, but I've been minorly swamped and, in a perhaps related matter, less blog-inspired recently.

But let's go to, then, shall we? The day began promisingly, with a pint of Anchor Steam, America's best beer, on draft at 10 a.m. luagha and I had arrived at Polk Street in

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[alcimines]

The Swan Oyster Depot?! One of my favorite stops in SF! The last time I was in San Francisco, I stayed in hotel that was in the area, and I think I ate in the Swan something like six times during a one week stay.

And while you're in town, you might want to try O'Reillys Holy Grail (the name alone should be of some interest to you). It's located at 1233 Polk Street.

Speaking of Beer

[rminkoff]

This
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hite
is the first thing that comes up when searching on wikipedia for "Hite"
Further searching
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hite_(disambiguation)
tells us Hites have been giants, clarinetists, feminist sex-therapists, & outlaw relatives of Frank and Jesse James.

even in this internet age, the Fields Book Store sounds worth a visit-what would you say is the best European source of esoterica?

Re: Speaking of Beer

[princeofcairo]

If by "European" you mean "British," I'd say the Atlantis Bookshop in London, at first blush.

If by "European" you mean "full of books ungenerously printed in languages I don't read," then I couldn't even begin to guess. Except to guess that it's in Paris somewhere.

Re: Speaking of Beer

[rminkoff]

Thank you, Mr. Hite.
In case you get invited to Fastaval
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastaval
allow me to recommend Filosofisk Boghandel
http://www.filosofiskboghandel.dk/
not merely the best, but the only occult bookstore in Arhus-all the other "alternative" booksellers are mainstream New Age snake-oil peddlers.

As for the Continental language barrier, you will find that languages supported by relatively small populations (such as Danish) are quite dependant on English bilinguity-especially when it comes to obscure "non-fiction" tomes. (Even though The Philosophic Bookstores homepage is all-Danish, apparently? Sigh).

Before that, of course, all the good Danish books were Latin. Who knows? With a bit of luck, you might come across a Wormius Mors Animae!

Re: Speaking of Beer

[gbsteve]

Treadwells is possibly better than Atlantis, Watkins was fun but it closed last week (after more than 100 years in business). Skoobs is pretty good for second hand books.

Argh

[ext_226625]

And I read this a mere week before I go to San Francisco, with a day free for shopping? While staying in walking distance of that store even...

Byzantine Magic

[danharms]

It wasn't such a bad call for Byzantine Magic, as Dumbarton Oaks has put the whole book online:

http://www.doaks.org/publications/doaks_online_publications/MABM.html