Rest in peace, Rubén Bonifaz Nuño (1923-2013). I have attempted an English translation of poem number 42 from “Los demonios y los días” (1956). The original Spanish below. From the sadness that falls down, from the pain that tires me, from my office, from the mess of my room, from these lonely man’s blankets, from this paper, I extend my hand.

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Two quotes dated 4 March 2009, handrwitten in one of my notebooks: -John Maggs, “Conservation priorities: a bookseller’s view,” in Petherbridge (1987) Conservation of Library and Archive Materials and the Graphic Arts , p. 232. -Christopher Clarkson, “Conservation priorities: a library conservator’s view,” in Petherbridge (1987) Conservation of Library and Archive Materials and the Graphic Arts , p. 236.

“Duty Calls”, by Randall Munroe (XKCD) “ It’s a conversation, not a lecture“, was the title I had given to this post of mine when I submitted it to the Guardian Higher Education Network back in September 2011. It seems like quite a long time ago now.

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“His devotion to jazz was primary,” she said, as she finished off a second glass of Bailey’s. Someday my prince will come, she said, without scare quotes or inverted commas, the drums of a certain Paul Motian, December 15th Nineteen Fifty Eight not simply a beat- a subtle interplay like walking out of West Fourth Street the ghost of the Iceman Cometh and Willa Sibert Cather on Washington Square Unnecessary Noise Prohibited, reads the sign

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