The other stories our books tell
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I found a scrap of paper, smuggled away inside a secondhand book I recently purchased online. In cursive, scripted elegantly in pencil down the middle:
china, silk, juice
Running through my mind while I peddled away mindlessly on the elliptical, loaded the dishwasher, took out the trash.
china, silk, juice
Could they be nicknames - for a trio of precocious musketeers? Ingredients for a come-hither evening? The name for an up-and-coming band?
china, silk, juice
A list of housewarming gift ideas? A set of strangely ordered allergies? A new hipster diner / gastropub that serves breakfast at all hours of the day on vintage chinaware?
How about the recipe for a mind-boggling evening. What interesting things have you found in books?
Most interesting: Jimmy Doohan's signature in used Star Trek book. Worst thing: Silverfish. Yuck!
ReplyDeleteHmmmm, silk originated in China...did juice??? :)
Ooh that is intriguing.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like a grocery list to me!
ReplyDeleteI guess I don't have a ton of interesting things. My most interesting find is a library receipt.
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Love how you thought of so many creative possibilities!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, that's so interesting! What could they be? I bet it's a code for something. I've never found anything too interesting, mostly just inscription in the front which are sometimes really touching.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that person was trying to figure out what the juice would go in? It probably wouldn't be the silk....
ReplyDeleteHave you ever heard of Found Magazine? I don't remember ever finding anything that interesting but I love some of the things other people have found.
http://foundmagazine.com/
I bought a second hand book
ReplyDeleteand it has a library card from the 70s from a library in the US..
I used it as bookmark the entire time I was reading the book.
Strange things indeed.
oh, I love these encounters. books do have a life of their own...
ReplyDeleteReally? That's too awesome! I've only found written names when I bought second-hand books before....nothing too exciting:)
ReplyDeleteI think this is the best post I'll read all day. You may NEVER know what those three little words have in common and there's so much fun to that. I like to believe that someday, maybe in another life we'll get a list of answers to these questions.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite used-book find came from my mom. She had written F.E.A.R. as an acronym on an old library fine. By the way, fear is merely...
False
Events
Appearing
Real
And that is why I love used books. They hold so many more stories than what's printed on the pages.
ReplyDeleteit's so lovely and mysterious to find little "bookmarks" in books. one of my favorite things. i have found several ticket tabs from airplanes and train travels, doodles, lists, receipts. as you know i buy all my books at powells and i think they must leave them in there purposely because i find them in almost every book i buy.
ReplyDeleteHmm ... that is a very interesting combo. I found a letter once but it was too old for me to be able to read the words on it.
ReplyDeleteGASP! I love it . . . I love the extra stories old books can tell. My favorite, thus far was a gift from a friend. A book series and a single book . . . one was a gift from the husband to his wife, the other a gift from the wife to the husband. Both are dated March 23, 1866 . . . their anniversary, perhaps?
ReplyDeleteHahaha that is funny. XD I havent found anything lately in books. :P
ReplyDeleteNow I want to know!! That is a fun little mystery. Kind of reminds of the post cards that people leave in the Post Secret books in random bookstores.
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