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...wanted to have my own bookstore until I worked in one," he told The Boston Globe in 1998. "Then I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones. I hoped to get into publishing, but at 28, my parents were still helping me out. Which wasn't good...
...wait. As you walk around the room, you notice something: the shelves are not of equal height. The tallest ones are at the bottom. And they are full of the tallest books. Then you understand. Jefferson, the philosopher, worshipped reason. Jefferson, the librarian, understood that sometimes you must surrender to reality and classify a book by its size...
...Sprewell shows the racial subtext of the league," says Shields. "His hair forces conversation about a taboo subject. The librarian-like glasses [which he often wears postgame] press you to consider him a mental as well as a physical being. His nonchalance and distance force talk about how black men are 'supposed' to act. Sprewell is sophisticated and transgressive. He pushes the envelope...
...turns out most of the other Principals for a Day were famous, like Diane Sawyer and Jerry Seinfeld, so I think the kids and teachers were disappointed they got me. At one point the librarian asked me if I ever got bylines in TIME. I dug several issues out of her shelves and pointed to my articles ("If not for me, people would think Sisqo wears a thong"). She responded by asking me to sign a copy. Now I don't have much experience with autographs, but I'm pretty sure you don't normally sign them right after someone...
Imagine an Auden less reticent about the (male) objects of his affection, or a Philip Larkin shedding his librarian's tweeds for a leather jacket and motorcycle boots. Such imagined metamorphoses might give new readers some sense of the lively pleasures awaiting them in the poetry of Thom Gunn, 70. Those who have watched his distinguished career evolve over nearly half a century need, of course, no such introduction; news that a new book of Gunn's poems has arrived is enough to start their celebrations...