serendipity

Apr. 2nd, 2006 03:04 pm
truepenny: artist's rendering of Sidneyia inexpectans (books)
[personal profile] truepenny
Alphabetizing the paperbacks properly means that A Little Princess is next to A Princess of Mars. I find this far more amusing than it probably deserves.

And we're all going to ignore the little goblin in the back of my head that now wants to write A Little Princess of Mars. Right? Right.

As you were.

Date: 2006-04-02 08:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magentamn.livejournal.com
Would it be anything like "Naked came the stranger in a strange land"?

Date: 2006-04-02 08:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] supergee.livejournal.com
My favorite alphabetization result is Charles Platt's The Gas next to Sylvia Plath.

Date: 2006-04-02 09:02 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] ivyblossom.livejournal.com
Alphabetizing is a failture of the organizational imagination, that's what.

Date: 2006-04-02 11:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/
Every time I shelve videos at the library (where it's just alphabetical) I laugh at 8 1/2 next to 8 1/2 Women next to 8 Women.

Date: 2006-04-03 02:56 am (UTC)
vass: Small turtle with green leaf in its mouth (Default)
From: [personal profile] vass
And we're all going to ignore the little goblin in the back of my head that now wants to write A Little Princess of Mars. Right? Right.

*sigh*

I remember getting emailed a list of those books. The compiler of the list called them 'merge-matics', but there has to be a better name. There were summaries attached. It was great.

Date: 2006-04-03 01:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] papersky.livejournal.com
Cherish your goblins!

I adore serendipities of alphabetical order. (Do you think Melusine sits uneasily next to Anne of Green Gables?)

Date: 2006-04-03 01:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
I need my goblin to take a number and sit down, please.

Date: 2006-04-03 01:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
One does not cherish a goblin, exactly. But one does not like to waste them.

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