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CITY LIGHTS BOOKSHOP's Interests
General
City Lights Bookshop is beloved the world over by secret armies of ninjas!
Music
Success in your lifetime can only be achieved by making a pilgrimage to City Lights Bookshop a number of times a year in a state of ecstatic grooviness.
Movies
City Lights Bookshop cannot fly, but it can glide for up to 3 kilometres!
Television
The Ancient Egyptians believed that buying a book from City Lights Bookshop would bring eternal life!
Books
If provoked, City Lights Bookshop will swivel the tip of its abdomen and shoot a jet of boiling venom at its attacker!
Heroes
About 1/10th of City Lights Bookshop is covered in ice!
"I have fallen in love a thousand times in my lifetime. All of which have been with books."--unknown
Booklovers never go to bed alone!
"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library."--Jorge Luis Borges
"If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."--Toni Morrison
"Books may well be the only true magic."--Alice Hoffman
"A library is an arsenal of liberty."--unknown
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For those who know us, we are the EPICENTER for good cheap reads, random encounters with notorious locals and odd celebrities, great small-talk conversation and a feast for the eyes every which way you look. For those who don't know us, they call us THE MOST UNUSUAL BOOKSTORE IN CANADA! Who knew London Ontario had so much to offer?
WE BUY AND SELL SECONDHAND BOOKS, DVDs, CDs, RECORDS, MAGAZINES, VHS MOVIES, AND KITSCH MEMORABILIA!!
We are located in the heart of downtown, 356 Richmond Street - between King and York. Contact us anytime - you'll never believe what you can dig up!
CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA!
Who I'd like to meet: We would like to be a conduit to having interesting and creative people as our friends in this space, both locally and internationally. It's not easy being an independent retailer in these times. People who adore books, movies, art, or music, whether as spectators or creators are people we like. We want a chance to see what the great big world is up to out there via your profiles because we are genuinely interested and because we think it will help us be more creative in our everyday life. You are all the best characters we have ever read about!
Hi City Lights -- I wanted to let your readers know that the Hidden River Awards Anthology cycle for 2008 has already begun, and we are accepting manuscripts between now and June 20 for $1,000 awards in fiction and playwrighting. See our website at www. hiddenriverarts. com for details, guidelines and application info.
I don't deserve this. You cannot ignore a fellow bookshop owner for this long. It goes against our code. It's not about books, or shops, or good credit; It's about respect. And pee breaks.
I'm here, i'm here, i'm here!! What's going on? Did someone take off without paying for a paperback? I'll fucking gouge their eyes out!! Can I say fucking? It's only natural.
every afternoon at the same time; as she went for a glass of water or a sandwich; there was a cardinal tapping at her kitchen window.
her eyes were wild with excitement and wonder as she told me the story
she was smiling; she seems to so easily.
a cardinal at her kitchen window, tapping lightly on the pane, and one afternoon bringing a guest.
a lady cardinal; maybe his girlfriend.
(i imagine the female bird to have been red in more ways then one when he told her of the woman whose window he tapped on daily. i believe she followed him that day in a fit of jealousy. to see in person, this woman)
she said one day he brought a guest. he tapped at her window while his girlfriend peered in at her, as infatuated (it seemed) as he.
she tells me this story completely unaware of the way she glows.
blood seeps through one page onto the next. the ripping and tearing of cuticles; dry winter hands, white knuckles and brittle skin.
the tower is high to climb and my boots are heavy, packed with snow and road salt.
january- you most facinorous month of the roman calendar.
cold bitch.
you've extended wars and stolen saints. i slip on your black ice and smash my lips against pavement sidewalks. i spit out my broken teeth; blood and saliva seeping through the ice. dry winter hands scraped by your coarse tongue.
cold bitch.
you arrive in a chilling wind to reap the life left from august. you take the last of the warmth left in my cheeks, in my ears. a scarf wrapped over my face and neck does not keep my eyes from suffering you. your breath creep up my pants legs and around my thighs; frozen and numb.
Just writing to confirm that you received that box full of diamonds I sent. If diamonds are forever, then a box of them should stay with you during your stint in Heaven.
I haven't heard from you in a while so I thought I'd drop a message to see whats new :p
Theres a book I'm wondering if you have at your shop called 'Touching From a Distance' by Deborah Curtis, I had bought a copy ages ago from Chapters but lent it to a mate and he's lost it :(
All friends of the BC 3 are encouraged to support Ron Paul in the primaries! Ron Paul will end the Drug Enforcement Administration. Ron Paul will pardon the pot people! Ron Paul will " REPEAL THE ENTIRE FEDERAL WAR ON DRUGS", as he himself has said repeatedly.
Ron Paul will end the DEA presence in Canada! And end the indictment of the BC3!
You have stumbled up a child; one whom carries storm clouds around in a tattered breif case. A merchant with his sadness for sale.
You have discovered that loneliness; like a man; has two arms, and two legs. It breathes in and out, but still cannot avoid shortness of breath.
You have seen; with your own eyes; the ways that armies reap.
You have heard; with your own ears; the bawling of babes.
You have touched; with your own hands; the course devil's skin. On this earth; delighted only in our empathy. But indeed; as you walk into the shadow; I discover that two shades of darkness sometimes shed like light.
breathe deep, talk fast, let go, love lots, be fair, be silly, think long, dream often, show tears, laugh loud, stand still, travel far, be quiet, be famous, sit down, stand tall be bored, be sexy, rest daily, run fast
