Tweedy Twerp, Complete with Twerpy Books. The tweed goes without saying.
I had to wait for two whole hours at the Bürgeramt in Wedding, my old neighborhood, in order to complete a transaction that took all of two minutes. I guess that's what you get when you're literally 100th in line and they have four people working in the entire fricking office. I reread almost the entirety of Novalis' Die Lehrlinge zu Sais while I waited. Boy am I glad I brought a book. However, I have now been officially de-registered, am no longer a legal resident of Germany, and can go about my touristy business as I please. Mission accomplished.
Discovery of the day: one fantastic Antiquariat (used bookstore) on Winterfeldstraße.
Spoils:
- A beautiful 1920s copy of Kant's Kritik der reinen Vernunft
- Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (From the Life of a Ne'er-Do-Well), a novella by by Joseph von Eichendorff
- A really cheap pocket score of Beethoven's 4th Symphony
- A dark blue leather-bound miniature score of Bach's Brandenburg Concerti (Boosey and Hawkes, 1941)
- Best of all: the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, published by Oxford in 1894, with an embossed cover, gilded page edges, and all the fixin's. Yum!
All this for just 47 Euro, too. It should have been 51, but the guy gave me an 8% discount for my bulk purchase.
A word from the wise: don't ever accidentally print something you want to be able to read at 4 pages per sheet. I have a splitting headache from trying to read the journal articles we're discussing tomorrow in the Argentina seminar. Well, at least I made it through two of the three, and I might pull off the third tomorrow morning.
Discovery of the day: one fantastic Antiquariat (used bookstore) on Winterfeldstraße.
Spoils:
- A beautiful 1920s copy of Kant's Kritik der reinen Vernunft
- Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (From the Life of a Ne'er-Do-Well), a novella by by Joseph von Eichendorff
- A really cheap pocket score of Beethoven's 4th Symphony
- A dark blue leather-bound miniature score of Bach's Brandenburg Concerti (Boosey and Hawkes, 1941)
- Best of all: the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, published by Oxford in 1894, with an embossed cover, gilded page edges, and all the fixin's. Yum!
All this for just 47 Euro, too. It should have been 51, but the guy gave me an 8% discount for my bulk purchase.
A word from the wise: don't ever accidentally print something you want to be able to read at 4 pages per sheet. I have a splitting headache from trying to read the journal articles we're discussing tomorrow in the Argentina seminar. Well, at least I made it through two of the three, and I might pull off the third tomorrow morning.