Cracked and Spineless New and Used Books

Book Store, Hobart, TAS, Australia

The personal opinions, caustic comments, and sometimes rude ramblings of Richard Sprent, lifelong bibliophile, and black sheep bookshop worker!.

Lightning flashes. Thunder crashes...
A crazed longtime local bibliophile laughs into the night.
Before him, in quiet repose, lies The Imperial Bookshop: Tasmania's largest secondhand bookshop.
Once it had been his master...
Now those roles are reversed.
Carefully, tenderly, lovingly, he clamps electrodes to the pert nipples of The Imperial.
He flicks a switch.
There's a sizzling sound; smoke fills the air; something smells like delicious roast chicken...
Then there's a loud groan, a moan, and a barely audible fart.
The bibliophile steps back...
And Cracked and Spineless New and Used Books takes its first few tentative steps forward.
It's alive.
It's alive!
IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!

Tags:
Books, Literature, Retail
Category:
Book Store