There's a nice piece on the AbeBooks website about the strange things people have used as bookmarks and forgotten about - everything from forty $1,000 bills to a rasher of bacon (at least it wasn't a fried egg).
It puts me in mind of the time I opened a book and found some chap had cut off the end of his trouser-leg to use as a bookmark. 'Well,' I thought, 'there's a turn-up for the book.'
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Yes, it's an old Tommy Cooper gag. I have no shame.
ReplyDeleteI borrowed a book from the library and was delighted to find the previous reader's bookmark. It was a letter inviting him to a meeting with his manager to discuss his absenteeism and persistent lateness for work. Stapled to the letter was a computer print-out of all the dates he missed or was late, together with the excuse he had supplied. I felt sorry for both sides - for the company (a well-known retail outlet) having to go through all this rigmarole and for the employee, who clearly hated his job. The book, by the way, was a biography of Primo Levi. I occasionally wonder about the outcome of the meeting. I enjoyed his excuses, I must say.
ReplyDeleteWow - that's quite a find. I like the way he casually left it all in a library book too. Let's hope he was destined for better things...
ReplyDeleteHow about things found between books on library bookshelves?
ReplyDeleteAnecdotal Evidence: `A Dry and Withered Semblance of Life'
ReplyDeleteشركة نقل عفش بالدمام
شركة نقل عفش بالمدينة المنورة
شركة نقل عفش بجدة
شركة نقل عفش بمكة
شركة نقل عفش بالطائف
شركة نقل عفش بالرياض
شركة نقل عفش بينبع
نقل العفش والتخزين
ReplyDeleteشركات نقل وتنظيف
شركات نقل عفش بالطائف
شركات نقل عفش بالمدينة المنورة
شركات نقل عفش بمكة
شركات نقل عفش
شركة تنظيف خزانات بالمدينة المنورة
شركات تنظيف بمكة
شركة مكافحة حشرات