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In the Meantime

13 February 2020 By Deborah Lucy

So, while I wrestle with the next Temple novel, I wander around looking for inspiration.  One of the books that I come across from my own collection is a small hand-sized copy of The Works of William Shakespeare.  It’s an old tatty leather bound 18th century book that I picked out at an antiques fair a long time ago.  Learning Shakespeare in class was torture; we had to read The Merchant of Venice.  It didn’t speak to me at all.  I had other things going on.  I hated it.  Had no idea what it was all about.  As a 15 year old teenager, it made no sense.

But for some reason at the antiques fair only a few years later, when I saw all these old leather books of Shakespeare’s works, I had to have one.  In fairness, it wasn’t a newly found culture that drew me.  It was the ‘oldness.’  The books were from the 1750’s.   That was seriously old and I wanted to own something that someone made, that another bought and would have read as new that long ago.

I could buy two for £9, but I only had £5.  I could buy one, so I chose the book containing the only Shakespeare play I knew then – the one of my torture.  I figured at least I’d have a loose understanding of what it was about.  So looking for inspiration, I end up reminiscing on this book I bought many years ago – and wishing now I’d had more money to buy more…

 

 

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