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Travelers still need (and love) maps
It’s been years since I visited the tiny state of Rhode Island, but the next time that I go I will definitely make time for the Map Center. Cartographer Andrew Middleton took over the 70 year old shop two years ago … Continue reading
Top Secret
The 1984 action comedy Top Secret! contains an odd sequence set in a Swedish bookstore. Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, and Peter Cushing acted the entire scene backward, and the filmmakers then reversed this performance to produce a dreamlike atmosphere in which … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, Film, Uncategorized
Tagged Bookstores on film, Cinema, Peter Cushing
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Fill your life with metaphors. And then explode.
Ray Bradbury // “Fall in love and stay in love. Explode. Don’t intellectualize. Get passionate about ideas. Cram your head full of images… Stay off the internet and all that crap. Read all the great books. Read all the great … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Henry Miller, Jorge Luis Borges, Rod Serling, Sylvia Plath
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Most Boring Book in the World
I’ve read some horribly tedious books, but apparently they do not come close to this one. In 1978, Clive James reviewed the official biography of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982) … Continue reading
Making me nostalgic for Autumn in Switzerland
Regular visitors to TBTP know that I am a sucker for well produced tourist bureau travel ads. This one is a bit cringy, but hit home for me. Way back in the 20th century I spent most of a glorious … Continue reading
Navigating a city without an address
I have been in some places that have confusing address systems, but nothing as baffling as Costa Rica. Direcciones is a short documentary about how giving directions works in Costa Rica, where “a centralized system for street addresses does not exist”. … Continue reading
Peek at Peak Color
While it may feel as though there is nothing positive to look forward to these days, at least we have the potential for another spectacular show of color this Autumn from Mother Nature. If you are planning any travel in … Continue reading
History of the Book
I had the good fortune to live near Princeton University during much of my adolescence and spent many hours lost in the treasures of the University’s Firestone Library. Over the years, the University began to limit access to students and … Continue reading
The world is no better than its places.
A Poem on Hope by Wendell Berry It is hard to have hope. It is harder as you grow old, for hope must not depend on feeling good and there is the dream of loneliness at absolute midnight. You also … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 