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‘…even crack dens glow…’

by J. C. Greenway
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This is beautiful, just beautiful:

Last month I installed new bookshelves in a room in my house. They’re black, and my painter offered the unsolicited opinion that they might look depressing when completed. I knew he was wrong because, at the very least, the paperback shelf couldn’t help but have a cheerful orange zing a zing that comes from the Penguin spine, the most wonderfully insidious default interior design statement in our culture. Even crack dens glow with Penguins on the shelf

Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland’s Penguin Anniversary Project, Speaking to the Past, is available on Flickr here.

I have been collecting old Penguins for a while now, mostly because I want to read them, but also because of how god-damn gorgeous they look when you have a shelf full of the beautiful things. Sadly, they are all boxed up now, but one day they will be taken out to glow again. And now, thanks to Mr Coupland, I know that I will never be content until I have black shelves to keep them on.


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Daniel Hoffmann-Gill 14 April 2010 - 2:06 pm

Thanks for stopping by at mine and for your intelligent comment. Much appreciated.

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