Newspapers: there is hope
July 21, 2011 at 7:20 PM | Posted in Family Life | 10 CommentsTags: Borders, Jack Mackey
I remember when Borders opened up in my town, many years ago. A woman wrote into the local paper wondering “why does our library look like a bookstore and our bookstore look like a library?” Borders, in those days, was that good.
The Borders manager then was a very thin bespectacled young fellow with long thin hair and a high voice; he was ideal. Magically he put books on the remainder table which were just the ones I would have put there for my easy purchase.
But then everything changed and they went commercial and began their long death rattle.
On the day that Borders gave up, I was sent this picture of two-year old Jack. His intent reading is touching but is it more than that? Is it a harbinger of a new, more enlightened generation?
A generation not tethered to electricity — one free to simply turn pages, free to throw the paper down in disgust, free to leave it on a bus seat by mistake and not have a heart attack?
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Love the photo ! Speaking of books, which leads to authors, I am at this moment wearing a Ernest Hemingway T shirt today in honor of his 112th birthday. In homage to Papa I’m reading “For Whom The Bell Tolls.” I wish I was in Key West now as they’re having their annual Hemingway Festival, which includes a Hemingway 5K this Saturday evening.
Comment by Bill Tanski— July 21, 2011 #
I just used a picture of Papa in a sales presentation and used the following approximate quote: ‘he fell apart gradually and then all of a sudden.’ does it ring a bell?
Comment by tommackey— July 22, 2011 #
A faint one for me – Moveable Feast about Fitzgerald?
Comment by Graham Page— July 26, 2011 #
Don’t understand.
Comment by tommackey— July 26, 2011 #
Ah, you stole my post! I was going to feature that pic. Snooze you lose I guess.
Comment by brendan— July 21, 2011 #
I didn’t think of that but that picture has a lifetime of use … I think you can do a lot more with it than I did.
I am going to get it framed.
Comment by tommackey— July 21, 2011 #
Great picture! I hope you’re right, but I fear it will get worse before it gets better. (Aren’t you a Kindle user?)
Comment by Graham Page— July 22, 2011 #
Me a Kindle? No sir, no. I prowl libraries ….
Comment by tommackey— July 22, 2011 #
Great picture! Foreground shows Jack at ease and in charge. Background details confirm he owns the place.
Comment by Peter West— July 22, 2011 #
Now that is well said … and true!
How goes the world?
Comment by tommackey— July 23, 2011 #