Four Recent Purchases

Media's cheap. Old media: books, CDs, DVDs. As McLuhan once said of old or "obsolete" media -- but we know the rest, right?

Four books, nine bucks. Three paperbacks at $1.99, the hardcover at $2.99. But why these four?

A Study in Thinking (1956) because in the same way Fear precedes Hate, Thinking does the same for Writing, and I'm a writer. Coming Through Slaughter (1976) because I have given up on getting back the copy I lent to Hortense. Paris Adventure (1954) because Tarek, who looks like the young man on the cover, lives in Paris, and his cousin Cori, who looks like the woman, visits him. And Contemporary British Poetry (1982) because of the date of publication -- a difficult time for the British people and the waning days of our use of the word "British".