Pipefuls

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love,and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the book lover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest, "I want you to love her, too!" It is a jealous passion also. He feels a little indignant if he finds that any one else has discovered the book, too. -Christopher Morley,"On Visiting Bookshops,"Pipefuls, (1920)

"Dad & Basil must have finished their book, I can see them on the library ladder looking for another adventure"...

Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes was my Dad in Laws FAVORITE... He would always mumble that they "just don't make them like him anymore"... You can imagine his excitement when Hubby & I during a trip to Dublin had this Sherlock pipe made JUST for HIM at Peterson Pipes. I got just as much excitement every time I saw him sitting back in his chair with it cupped in his hand. He wasn't smoking very much any more BUT, "It WAS a genuine Dublin Peterson Sherlock Holmes Pipe made just for him", and he would sit silently, smiling a lot... The book PIPEFULS is a "MUST READ" for everyone... I'm going to see if it's LEGAL for me to post pages from it... It has chapters that you will definitely be discussing over dinner, It's witty and cute and ageless, even though it was published in 1920... Originally I had only bought it because of the name and the picture on the cover, for my Dad in Laws Visits BUT it always ends up a favorite from my library...

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