7-5-14 6:50am Sat.
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I'm sitting outside on the patio
with Latte having a coffee and English muffin. The first week in July without
American Eagle classes ended well with a scooter ride with leona to the
Westside. We had lunch in Ding Tai Feng and then went food shopping in Top City
getting all kinds of dairy and Mexican products you can't get anywhere but
there, Costco, and Jasons's in Taichung, things like ricotta cheese, Emborg
butter, sharp cheddar cheese, sour cream, nachos, refried beans, and salsa.
Afterwards, Leona just had to go shopping in Far Eastern Dept. Store next door
and left me on a couch in the basement waiting. She looked for me way after I
got too bored to stay, found me coming back from a nine floor escalator trip,
and took me to another boutique in the store. This boutique was at least
interesting and had three or four antique English books on display as props for
their clothes; a Greek New testament, volume four of a History of England, a
third book, and the primo: The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy,
1952 edition, hard bound. Beautiful! I offered to buy the book and save it from
a bourgeois life as unread fodder. The salesgirl listened to Leona's request
and called her boss. Her boss said 'no way.' Why? The company had bought books
from a Japanese used book store. Leona bought a few blouses from them but I
left disappointed. The only item in the entire department store that interested
me, I couldn't buy. I wouldn’t have bought the blouses if they didn’t sell me
the book, too.
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