84 Charing Cross Road
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Sir:
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It feels witless to keep writing
"Gentlemen"...

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...when the same solitary soul is obviously
taking care of everything for me.

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Savage Landor arrived and promptly
fell open to a Roman dialogue...

:15:12
...where two cities
had just been destroyed by war.

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Everyone was being crucified
and begging Roman soldiers...

:15:19
...to run them through and end the agony.
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It'll be a relief to turn to Aesop and
Rhodope where the only worry is a famine.

:15:32
I love used books that open to the page
a previous owner read oftenest.

:15:37
When Hazlitt came, he opened to
"I hate to read new books."

:15:41
And I hollered, "Comrade!"
To whoever owned it before me.

:15:45
I enclose $1, which Brian,
Kay's British boyfriend...

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...says will cover the 8 shillings I owe you.
:15:51
You forgot to translate it.
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Thank you.
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Only two per family, luv.
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Now then.
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Brian told me you are all rationed
to two ounces of meat per family a week...

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...and one egg per person per month!
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I am simply appalled.
:16:31
Somebody told Brian
about this firm in Denmark.

:16:34
They ship food packages to England.
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- I use them to send food to my mother.
- Show her the catalogue.

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They're very reliable. Cheap, too.
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Well, cheapish.
:16:49
My God!
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Look at this.
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They've got spiced lard, liver paste,
meatballs, chocolate shortcake...

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...margarine, eggs, cheese.

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