I had to go to Bath
again today, but the weather was a far cry from last Thursday. The temperature
had dropped, one minute it would be sunny and the next minute it would be
hailstones. After I had completed the business which brought me to Bath I went for a walk
around town. The streets were quite deserted because of the weather. There were
no buskers to stop and listen to. It wasn’t a complete waste of time though. In
the Julian House shop in Walcot
Street I found a nice copy of Memoirs Of
A Beatnik by Diane Di Prima. I
like anything ‘Beat’ but I hadn’t
seen this book before. It is a novel written in 1969 but this edition was
published in 2002. It is a fictionalised erotic account of her own life. I
first became aware of Diane through her reading a couple of her poems at The Last Waltz concert with The Band. You can find a video below of
that if you want.
Also, in the Dorothy House shop I found a signed hardback
copy of Frazzled by Ruby Wax. It is in a mint condition, so I was well pleased with that. Both of those books will go in my shop
in the next few days. After that I headed for the station because I couldn’t
think of anything else to do. I started to read my Beatnik book on the way
home. Diane certainly had an interesting life. I went for a couple of drinks
and a game of pool this evening and that was the end of rainy Tuesday.
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