Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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Sean Manning rereads "Hapworth 16, 1924" from the New Yorker DVD set.
One of the first things I did upon moving to New York in May of 2001... was pay a visit to the Humanities and Social Sciences Library. While a few hours respite from the incessant meowing of my landlady's Persian was incentive enough, my goal was to unearth a copy of "Hapworth."
* * * Clearly, I wasn't the first person to have had this idea. The microfilm was so badly warped that I needed a librarian's help affixing it to the spindle. The scratches were so severe I had to reverse the printer setting to white on black. One of my high school teachers tipped me off to the existence of the story (I had devoured the rest of Salinger in print), so sometime in the early 70s I trolleyed down to the library at the University of Dayton and read "Hapworth" in a bound copy of the magazine. Given the state of copier technology at the time and the amount of change in my pocket, I didn't make a copy of the story, to my regret. robot wisdom points out that there is a bootleg copy of the story, with all that that entails. I have been hankering after the DVD set, largely to regain a copy of the Salinger story, but Manning suggests that I might be disappointed. posted: 1:58:20 PM |
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Good news for rail supporters:
Fairfax County has indicated it will cover its share of any cost increase in the Dulles Metro project, the first commitment of its kind since the price tag on the massive transit project jumped $300 million at the end of summer.
Dominic Bonaiuto's story goes on to point out that the county is not writing a blank check, nor has it figured out where its share of the possible cost increases will come from. posted: 12:54:19 PM |
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