We're planning to see the film Benjamin Button on Christmas morning. When my S.O. mentioned that it was based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, I was surprised. I didn't remember it, but there it was, just four feet away in a volume of his short works that I picked up at a book fair for a dollar. When I think of F. Scott's short stories, Bernice Bobs her Hair pops into my head. Years ago I gave a Christmas gift of an audio book (Fitzgerald's flapper stories) to a confirmed non-reader. She drove a lot, alone in the car. After many months she mentioned the stories to me. "I lost interest every time I tried to listen. It seemed old fashioned or something... I thought how boring -- then one day I listened to it and realized the stories were fascinating!"
Christmas 1999 ~ I receive a book of words.
and phrases 
Coined by Shakespeare. A nifty little book.
6 comments:
A book of words strikes me as the finest of gifts imaginable.
Happy Holidays.
You just determined my reading for tomorrow's day off - Benjamin Button sounds right up my alley !
Pleasant reading to you.
How gratifying that someone you gave a book to read and enjoyed it. That's rare.
That does look like a nifty little book.
Hey, is that a record there?
Follow up with a review of the movie, won't you?
Alam Smithee is afraid this film will be something like Forrest Gump (1994).
Tut,
It's a record on an old broken child's wind up player from the 1920's. All it needs is a new horn, a new crank, a new arm and stylus, and a spring wound motor--as in the old sewing machines-- and it could play the record.
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