JM: One squelchy footstep late her hero came, into the crackling ooze of mud and slime: he was too
near the frosty swamp of verse insane -
counting his digits and toes to keep in time?
The
debate rages...
btw: A VN sighting in Portuguese: ( loosely related
to poetry and selling tactis)
A selection of ten symptoms of "bookaholism" was profered,
following an article by Graeme Neill on
book
trade (June3,2009) and 'Bookaholism' [ click on estimular
]: "Exploring how best to use the cross-industry "bookaholic"
concept, including determining a launch date, defining its creative guidelines
and how to widen its reach, are among the immediate challenges facing the
Booksellers Association and Publishers Association [...] Marketing consultant
Damian Horner said that the campaign was at a "very early stage" and a strapline
for the concept had yet to be hammered out. [...] The chosen route was one with
"a lot of momentum behind it", Horner said. "It's cheeky, fun and memorable."
[...]
He described its flexibility as one of its strengths saying that
poetry, for example, could be sold with "fancy a line of
Coleridge".
From the list of ten I selected two "symptoms" - since in one of
them Nabokov was mentioned:
1. O bibliólico, como depõe Assouline,
jamais sai de casa sem ter alguma coisa para ler[...] ( As stated by
Assouline, the bookaholic never leaves home without carrying something to read
en route)
5. O bibliólico é um ótimo negociante. Não pode ver uma
oferta. Eu mesmo já comprei três exemplares de um mesmo livro de Nabokov. Um de
cada vez, pensando que não tinha comprado antes. Só pelo bom preço. Ah, sim: até
hoje não o li. (The bookaholic is a good merchant. He cannot resist a
sale. I once bought three copies of the same novel by Nabokov because the price
was good. Ah, I have yet to read
him.)