tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9010249.post4127685346724772570..comments2009-04-08T15:12:02.404-07:00Nirenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01808192540701219796noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9010249.post-35073937376184558652009-04-08T15:12:00.000-07:002009-04-08T15:12:00.000-07:00You know when I was a kid we had a very beautiful book of fairy tales by Wilhelm Hauff. <BR/><BR/>Big and bulky, with blue covers and coloured, awesome looking pictures. <BR/><BR/>Once, when my siblings and I were grown ups, my father gave it away, along with other books of tales, to the son of an old and very good friend of his who had just died of lung cancer.<BR/> <BR/>That boy, although highly intelligent, couldn’t be persuaded to read anything, which affected his school performance, and indeed the books helped in giving him a taste for reading.<BR/><BR/>Considering the circumstances, I don’t regret losing that book, at all, but at various points in my life I found myself missing it, painfully. I wanted so much to have it again, the exact same edition, with the same cover, pictures, text, etc. and maybe I missed my childhood too, in that book. <BR/><BR/>I looked for it online one day, and it seemed other (now adult) people missed it too and were willing to pay good money for it. Yet until recently, I could only find some (or just one) of the stories published in a volume (even bought such a book). Once I read an old tale in a store and the text sounded awkward and had an annoying mistake (the pictures were rather showy, too)…<BR/><BR/>Then, during my latest visit to a bookshop, I laid my hands on a book that appears to have all the stories from my childhood, the words are very similar to the words I remember... it may even be the same text. The illustrations are fewer, and black and white this time, but they are not “aggressive” and remind me a little of the ones in the old book. <BR/><BR/>What I mean to say by the above is that maybe now your old friends are new editions of themselves. And while you may not find the old book, which you long for, ever again, sometimes if you are willing to lower your expectations a bit a new edition may prove quite satisfying.<BR/><BR/>Sorry for the very long, boring and rather clueless comment.<BR/><BR/>Much happiness to you!grniadnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9010249.post-37502481092666658852009-04-01T23:55:00.000-07:002009-04-01T23:55:00.000-07:00:) This was lovely... Not a constructive comment but I just got all nostalgic.. so sue me :PDivyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14741084542528379768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9010249.post-63197437785324223872009-03-26T12:33:00.000-07:002009-03-26T12:33:00.000-07:00quarter life syndrome.. :)Sanchithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09768316856389739603noreply@blogger.com