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My dream house part 1
Jun. 18th, 2002 12:19 amRoom #1: library. Sprawling bookshelves, made from trees older than this country. Sure, I feel guilty about that, but who's gonna stop me?
And on those bookshelves are whatever I want. Mostly non-fic, for starters. No wrestling biographies. Those things always visit.
I've wanted a roll top desk for the longest time. Ever since I saw one in the house of a childhood acquaintance of mine (fucking redneck) I've been entranced with them. The lid rolls up into the desk! Holy shit!
One big enough to hold my 'puter. Or maybe my puter will be small enough to fit into the desk. I could live with an Imac, if it could run good gameware.
Big, oiled leather chair. To sit in. With a matching Ottoman.
No fucking litter box in the library. I want the whole room to smell exactly like my copy of the Champions BBB smelled the first time I cracked it open.
The books are irrelevant. I don't have many 'great books' (although, like some other people, I've got a copy of The Quotable Shakespeare). But with a library like that, I would get them. Maybe I'd go back to Kingston and visit some of the vanished UBS's of my youth. Or subscribe to a great works collections.
It'll be two floors. I want to walk up to the top level of the bookshelves.
Who knows. But I want a room that would make me ashamed to fill it up with cheap pulps (or even Nobilis, now sitting next to me).
But I need a library. A good room, with an excuse to put central air into the building. I want a room that's JUST for my stuff.
Oh, yeah: big wooden table in teh centre, for gaming. I'm just a geek.
And on those bookshelves are whatever I want. Mostly non-fic, for starters. No wrestling biographies. Those things always visit.
I've wanted a roll top desk for the longest time. Ever since I saw one in the house of a childhood acquaintance of mine (fucking redneck) I've been entranced with them. The lid rolls up into the desk! Holy shit!
One big enough to hold my 'puter. Or maybe my puter will be small enough to fit into the desk. I could live with an Imac, if it could run good gameware.
Big, oiled leather chair. To sit in. With a matching Ottoman.
No fucking litter box in the library. I want the whole room to smell exactly like my copy of the Champions BBB smelled the first time I cracked it open.
The books are irrelevant. I don't have many 'great books' (although, like some other people, I've got a copy of The Quotable Shakespeare). But with a library like that, I would get them. Maybe I'd go back to Kingston and visit some of the vanished UBS's of my youth. Or subscribe to a great works collections.
It'll be two floors. I want to walk up to the top level of the bookshelves.
Who knows. But I want a room that would make me ashamed to fill it up with cheap pulps (or even Nobilis, now sitting next to me).
But I need a library. A good room, with an excuse to put central air into the building. I want a room that's JUST for my stuff.
Oh, yeah: big wooden table in teh centre, for gaming. I'm just a geek.
