Still no City of Saints and Madmen.
Marie Nilsenova’s PhD thesis, Rises and Falls: Studies in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Intonation. Again, it’s fun to know people who write books!
Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games, which is about a different sort of game theorist. From the kringloopwinkel, where we also bought an electric organ.
Introduction to Book Binding (with sketches by the author), by Lionel S. Darley. First published in 1965 (this is the 1977 edition), this is as delightfully old-fashioned as its author’s name suggests. Still, I doubt the handicraft has moved on much since then, even if the chapter on the Smyth casing-in machine (patented in 1902) has likely been superceded. Boekenmarkt Spui of course, where else do you find gems like this? > Inevitably there are times when the place tends to get in a muddle, but the desirability of > being neat and tidy must always be kept in mind; it facilitates work and reduces to a minimum > the danger of outside assistance in such matters, which may well frustrate the best-laid plans.
Orwell, Penguin Selected Essays. Nice to have “Politics and the English language” between covers. Also from the Boekenmarkt.