[Ann Drysdale]

You know, I could swear I've read that before somewhere...

Added in, wrongfootedly:

ZUGZWANG 2

That's the second time in this very thread that a post has disappeared - just bloody vanished - making nonsense of my subsequent post so that I am forced to take action.

How does this happen?

Not even the decency to replace it with a Nevermind or to remove mine as well so I don't look like a pr@.

Gorn, I tell you. Gorn - and never called me "mother"...

[Graham King]

I peruse pages, person frozen,
Somnol-int-ent on my feet,
Solemn also; apt to not note
Chance known faces who may greet,
In the bookshop - den of treasure!
Badger-like, I settle there,
Passing unknown time in browsing -
Mundane world? I’m unaware,
Drifting through fantastic landscapes,
In converse with types outré !
Thrilling risks and skinned-teeth escapes
So displace the everyday.
Tomes, too, factual and varied
Keep me rapt as text informs.
Here I stand, a Donnish island -
Book-thralled, beyond social norms.