It's a bookend so it probably looks better in profile leaning up against a row of books. You remember books, those heavy paper things where we used to get information? Everybody kept a bunch (usually Reader's Digest Condensed Books and an unread copy of 'Don Quixote') on a shelf to impress visitors, and had chunky things like this Lucky Lindy or brass dog's heads or bronze ships to hold them in place. Now it's all just gathering dust in junk - oops, I meant 'antique' - stores. My stuff is still gathering dust in my own house, at least until my kids get stuck figuring out how to get rid of it all...
None of these (otherwise perfectly reasonable) replies answers Mr G's question, and I can't either. Instead, and to complicate the inquiry, may I add: Did anyone really want to display the thing, or was it more likely a gift of desperation from someone who didn't much give a dang about the recipient?
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It's a bookend so it probably looks better in profile leaning up against a row of books.
ReplyDeleteYou remember books, those heavy paper things where we used to get information?
Everybody kept a bunch (usually Reader's Digest Condensed Books and an unread copy of 'Don Quixote') on a shelf to impress visitors, and had chunky things like this Lucky Lindy or brass dog's heads or bronze ships to hold them in place.
Now it's all just gathering dust in junk - oops, I meant 'antique' - stores.
My stuff is still gathering dust in my own house, at least until my kids get stuck figuring out how to get rid of it all...
Every decent man still has a lot of books in the house..
ReplyDeleteNot so sure about the hero thing.
ReplyDeleteNone of these (otherwise perfectly reasonable) replies answers Mr G's question, and I can't either. Instead, and to complicate the inquiry, may I add: Did anyone really want to display the thing, or was it more likely a gift of desperation from someone who didn't much give a dang about the recipient?
ReplyDeleteMy thought is that he probably had no say whatever in the design of the thing!
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