[NON BLOG] Reunification
Jan. 2nd, 2005 12:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldA minor but important result of my most recent visit to Prince Edward Island was my reunification with certain of my cultural artifacts, after the space of a year and a half. In August of 2003, when it was still theoretically possible that I might return to the Island, there was no immediate rationale for shipping everything with me. In December of 2003, there was no room to allow mass shipments of even the books most significant to me. This December, I travelled with empty bags.
The music was the easiest to accomodate: four Jane Siberry albums (1984's No Borders Here, 1985's The Speckless Sky, 1987's The Walking, and 1989's Bound by the Beauty), Tracy Chapman's self-titled debut album, Peter Gabriel's Us, Mary Jane Lamond's Suas E! and assorted singles.
The books were rather more difficult, and almost as numerous as the several dozen CDs: The 1998 English translation of Dominique Simmonet's innovative Origins: Cosmos, Earth, and Mankind; Jean Anglade's La vie quotidienne des immigrés en France de 1919 à nos jours, a combined overview in statistics and interviews of immigrants in France from the perspective of the 1970s; the copy The Hours that I'd bought almost three years ago now in Richmond, my autographed copy of Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach ("May good spirits guide you"); Theodore Roszak's wise The Cult of Information and John Horgan's The End of Science; a boxed set of the first four volumes of The Diary of Anaïs Nin, a 1960s Fontana paperback of Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man eaturing an introduction by Sir Julian Huxley; the two of the three Terran Trade Authority spacecraft books that I own; Cornelius Howatt: Superstar!, written by David Weale and Harry Baglole and to be blogged by me fairly soon; my 1989 Unwin paperback edition of The Child Garden; my broken-back copy of Dark Mirror and Diane Duane's four Rihannsu novels; my two-volume edition of Alain Peyrefitte's revealing Quand la China s'éveillera ..., bought cheaply at my favourite used book store, in Moncton, four years ago; my collection of Institute of Island Studies books on the sociology, economy, and culture of Island societies.
More recent acquisitions lie on my shelves, too: a $6.95 Bibliothèque Québécoise edition of the collected poems of ?ile Nelligan bought at the Greater Moncton International Airport, drawn from the authoritative 1991 edition; the unexprugated Ghost in the Shell and GURPS Planet Krishna, bought at 40% off at the Grey Region; a lovely new hardcover edition of The Line of Beauty (were I industrious I'd have gotten the Prix Goncourt winner as well).
It's nice to live in a place that feels fully peopled again.
The question of my third language has been settled for me, incidentally. While rummaging about, I happened upon a 2-CD-ROM Spanish-instruction program. So, vivo la lengua española! and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
orlandobr, forgive me for this and other sins.
The music was the easiest to accomodate: four Jane Siberry albums (1984's No Borders Here, 1985's The Speckless Sky, 1987's The Walking, and 1989's Bound by the Beauty), Tracy Chapman's self-titled debut album, Peter Gabriel's Us, Mary Jane Lamond's Suas E! and assorted singles.
The books were rather more difficult, and almost as numerous as the several dozen CDs: The 1998 English translation of Dominique Simmonet's innovative Origins: Cosmos, Earth, and Mankind; Jean Anglade's La vie quotidienne des immigrés en France de 1919 à nos jours, a combined overview in statistics and interviews of immigrants in France from the perspective of the 1970s; the copy The Hours that I'd bought almost three years ago now in Richmond, my autographed copy of Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach ("May good spirits guide you"); Theodore Roszak's wise The Cult of Information and John Horgan's The End of Science; a boxed set of the first four volumes of The Diary of Anaïs Nin, a 1960s Fontana paperback of Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man eaturing an introduction by Sir Julian Huxley; the two of the three Terran Trade Authority spacecraft books that I own; Cornelius Howatt: Superstar!, written by David Weale and Harry Baglole and to be blogged by me fairly soon; my 1989 Unwin paperback edition of The Child Garden; my broken-back copy of Dark Mirror and Diane Duane's four Rihannsu novels; my two-volume edition of Alain Peyrefitte's revealing Quand la China s'éveillera ..., bought cheaply at my favourite used book store, in Moncton, four years ago; my collection of Institute of Island Studies books on the sociology, economy, and culture of Island societies.
More recent acquisitions lie on my shelves, too: a $6.95 Bibliothèque Québécoise edition of the collected poems of ?ile Nelligan bought at the Greater Moncton International Airport, drawn from the authoritative 1991 edition; the unexprugated Ghost in the Shell and GURPS Planet Krishna, bought at 40% off at the Grey Region; a lovely new hardcover edition of The Line of Beauty (were I industrious I'd have gotten the Prix Goncourt winner as well).
It's nice to live in a place that feels fully peopled again.
The question of my third language has been settled for me, incidentally. While rummaging about, I happened upon a 2-CD-ROM Spanish-instruction program. So, vivo la lengua española! and
orlandobr, forgive me for this and other sins.
