This is my entry in @therovingreader's Adventure Reading Contest.
If you'd like to participate, you have until this Sunday, January 28, to submit your own picture and story. The rules and guidelines for the contest can be found here. It's a fun idea and I'm grateful to @therovingreader for putting it together.
I'm also grateful to @atopy for writing about the contest here, and as usual, providing some of her charming big-headed illustrations. They always make me laugh.
In her post, she describes two types of readers. She's a type 2 - the one who sits up all night devouring a book in a frenzy. Then -
You have the type 1 reader. A sophisticated individual reading heavy philosophical subjects, while sitting in his art deco armchair and smoking his pipe.
Was she talking about me? (No, she wasn't.) But I couldn't resist having a go at living up to her stereotype.
Since @dayleeo has dubbed me "The unofficial 'old stuff' guy on Steemit," and since I'm eager to cling to any kind of brand I can establish, I just had to pull out the old Royal again to compose my story.
Here it is:
Oh right, here's the link to the pipe story. I forgot that typing with a different colored ribbon doesn't just turn a piece of paper into a hyperlink.
Montgomery the dog came with me on this adventure.
I grow old ... I grow old ... /I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Here's a glimpse at the rough draft -
just to remind you young whippersnappers of the way we used to edit our manuscripts - with blood red ink and tears:
You mean I've still got to type it all over again?
No wonder authors drink so much!
"Are you putting stuff on the internet? Don't you know that's for cats?"
Thanks for coming on this adventure with me. You can check out other entries in the contest under the #adventurereading tag, and again, go here if you'd like to submit your own.
A decidedly distinguished fellow in that armchair! 🙂 I remember typing things on the ol typewriter, but I guess mine was kind of newfangled compared to yours. It came with one of those whiteout ribbons and was electric 😂
Those can be a life-saver. It's funny - they actually sell "two tone" typewriter ribbons where one half is all correction tape. But the stuff always flakes off like crazy and makes a huge mess.
These sheets work much better but at $14.95 a page they're not cheap. Although one would probably last the rest of my life.
You're a very posh type 1 reader, what can I say..!? Do you think I'm too weird for trying to read the label on your wine?!
You might lose your posh cred there, I think it might be 2 buck chuck I grabbed the last time I was at TJs. Oh well, Posh mixed with New England thrift. :)
Fell in love with your pictures.
I see that you have a little monster too (Or can I say that's a lion?).
I really enjoy your post. Good luck!
She sure is a lion. She came with the house!
I think cats are mandatory for readers, aren't they?
LOL! They are, mine loves to sit with me when I am reading or playing, she falls asleep but at least she's with me.
I have included this post in this weeks edition of The Library - a new curation post for writers and readers. Thanks for the great story.
Sweet! Thanks so much - off to check it out now!
Digitized typewritten pages, an 800-page historical tome, a vest, and a meerschaum pipe?! I am drowning in the classiness of this post.
I used to get free books from the discard pile at the school library, and their covers would be falling off with loose pages ready to take flight. I can't imagine how this beautiful hardcover could wind up at the dump! It does seem like fate.
Thanks for sharing this epically elegant adventure! It may inspire me to switch out of my rainy-day sweatpants and try a posher reading experience soon.
And if you don't remember what you read you'll definitely remember how good you looked reading it!
I need to take some pictures at the dump. It's going to make everyone jealous.
You're a winner! Also, checking out your dump posts now. :)
Chairman Wow! Thanks so much!!!
Style, substance, and a great story to boot. I loved reading it in the courier font - fertile ground for a bout of reminiscing.
Thank you. It's a bit of a workout getting it to look good. But I still think old typewriters can't be beat for rough drafts and uninterrupted writing.
Quite delightful, and you are oh so philosophical looking. I'm more the OCD frenzied type!
haha! glad to see you're embracing it! Appreciate the trip into the sentiments of yesteryear as always :)
Thanks for coming with me!
I love to rescue old, abandoned books, too....
Here in the States we have Free Lending Libraries that look like a bird house, often positioned beside someone's mailbox,
and people can help themselves to cast-off books.
The local gym has a shelf full of donated books for people to read while on the treadmill. I've put books there, regretted parting with them, and never found the books again when I'd go back hoping to reclaim the donation. And yet husband beseeches me to part with more books. Floor to ceiling, stacks of books. This in spite of owning a Kindle....
The books do multiply, don't they? I've thinned my library so much but it just keeps getting fatter again.
I'm in the states, so I've seen the little free libraries. They're a great idea. At least the fact that your donations disappeared means that someone is enjoying them!