Plurabelle Books is a one man show, as most bookrecycling enterprises: Paper ecology and cognitive archaeology combined. The bookseller, his name is Michael Cahn, is the ultimate cultural vulture: his place is where the durability of books meets the short lifespan of humans. In this gap he tries to make a living, getting to know many books, and reading only a few. He also wears the hat of some Joycean Pun (plurabelle is anna LIVIA plurabelle, is James Joyce's Finnegans Wake).

Finnegans Wake as a naming convention:
Cf Riverrun books
12 Washington Av Hastings-on-Hudson NY 10706 csteph01@sprynet.com

We also have favourite books, for instance Fothergill's Innkeeper's Diary (1931), the innkeeper who sets out to change the world with good bread, meat well hung, and stinking cheese, isn't that a wonderful metaphor for bookdealing? Or Stonier's very special writing in Shadow across the Page (1937), but really he smokes to much.
Another favourite is Borrow: The Bible in Spain, or the Journeys, Adventures and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula (1842): here's someone who gives books away, for free, and he has some nice words about lapin olive too (I cook it with capers)
But this selection does not mean that we would like to transform our bookshop, which is only a storage room at the moment, into a restaurant: instead we would like to buy a church, and sell our books in a church.

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