The one-sided letters bother me, too; how is it we have his alone? And yes, why did letters travel more quickly back then? Although mail to Switzerland (I have a friend there that I met in the PotC fandom, who travels regularly to the U.S., so we've met in RL) travels faster than letters to my relatives in Arizona. The workings of the world are most mysterious.
I'd be happy to help with LJ formatting if you need it. I have a cheat sheet I could email, and I can play with basic CSS stuff.
A Natural History museum? Heaven. Your house sounds like mine and the one I grew up in. Well, I don't have skulls. An oversight. I'm absolutely certain you'll both enjoy Lewis Thomas.
Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere fact of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. We are alive against the stupendous odds of genetics, infinitely outnumbered by all the alternates who might, except for luck, be in our places.
Powell's is in Oregon, and started out as a brick and mortar bookstore (which still exists). It represents a triumph of trueblood bookseller's over the age of the internet.
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Date: 2012-07-26 06:12 am (UTC)I'd be happy to help with LJ formatting if you need it. I have a cheat sheet I could email, and I can play with basic CSS stuff.
A Natural History museum? Heaven. Your house sounds like mine and the one I grew up in. Well, I don't have skulls. An oversight. I'm absolutely certain you'll both enjoy Lewis Thomas.
Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere fact of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. We are alive against the stupendous odds of genetics, infinitely outnumbered by all the alternates who might, except for luck, be in our places.
Powell's is in Oregon, and started out as a brick and mortar bookstore (which still exists). It represents a triumph of trueblood bookseller's over the age of the internet.