SW - I have just finished On the Future by Martin Rees. you have NOTHING to fear / from the poet / but the TRUTH). (When you should see / a man / walking down a crowded street / talking aloud / to himself, / don't run / in the opposite direction / but run towards him, / for he is a POET. The Beat Generation poet Ted Joans was often by the bookshop (it was where I got his mail every day) and recited his poetry to me: if you should see / a man / walking down a crowded street / talking aloud / to himself / don't run / in the opposite direction / but run towards him / for he is a POET! / you have NOTHING to fear / from the poet / but the TRUTH. SW - As a child I remember following my father around the bookshop, waving a big bunch of keys, dodging sleeping tumbleweeds, singing "Rise and Shine", and the ringing of the bells of Notre-Dame, right outside our window. NT - Do you have any memories or anecdotes from your early years living in the bookshop as a child? NT - What three words would you use to define the library?
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