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8.05.2009

"Canticle For Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

found at the east bay depot for creative reuse
Yesterday my girlfriend wanted to go get some vintage wallpaper. Why does everything have to be about vintage this...vintage that? I guess it's my fault for dating the Cali Vintage girl. Anyhow, as usual, I spent all my time there digging through books. Found this interesting novel.

It's speculative fiction, of a particular scholarly slant. I haven't read it, but I actually read a lot about it when I was doing research for my "Panoski's Myth" cycle of stories. The story concerns a monk named Leibowitz who rediscovers technology centuries after nuclear war caused a second Dark Ages.

It's a second printing, and it's ex-library...more specifically, it's from St. Theresa's Parish Library, which I assume refers to the St. Theresa's school here in Oakland. Somehow being beat up and library discharged only increases its coolness.

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