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tree_and_leaf) wrote2006-12-12 03:03 pm
tree_and_leaf) wrote2006-12-12 03:03 pm
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In which Tree and Leaf succumbs to temptation
I went down to the religious bookshop (St Phillips, new, second hand and rare) on St Aldates today, looking for a translation of Gertrud the Great - which, indeed, I found.
I also found, while resisting the urge to buy Charles William's extraordinarily partial but none the less interesting history of mysticism, the 'first cheap edition 352 pages 4/6' of Four Sacred Plays by Dorothy L Sayers. I couldn't resist, though I think I've just sabotaged my chance of getting amything done this afternoon.
The bookshop itself is extremely well stocked, though obviously by a Catholic - the English Missal and reports from the Anglo-Catholic conferences of the thirties were filed austerely under 'Anglican and Non-Conformist', which is accurate as far as it goes, but still somehow amusing...
But, anyway, 352 pages of new Sayers!
I also found, while resisting the urge to buy Charles William's extraordinarily partial but none the less interesting history of mysticism, the 'first cheap edition 352 pages 4/6' of Four Sacred Plays by Dorothy L Sayers. I couldn't resist, though I think I've just sabotaged my chance of getting amything done this afternoon.
The bookshop itself is extremely well stocked, though obviously by a Catholic - the English Missal and reports from the Anglo-Catholic conferences of the thirties were filed austerely under 'Anglican and Non-Conformist', which is accurate as far as it goes, but still somehow amusing...
But, anyway, 352 pages of new Sayers!