What books have you dropped on your head?

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That's not slang. Last night I was putting up book-cases in my new apartment and while I was rearranging one of them, another one next to it started to tip forward. I think I got hit by Montaigne's complete works and one volume of Aristotle's collected works, while swatting away some of Coppleston's nine volume history of philosophy, with my arms. The book-cases are now under control.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 7 June 2004 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

When it happened to me, it was a shower of books. I can't remember specific titles, only that there were lots.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Monday, 7 June 2004 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Howards End

― the junefox, Monday, 7 June 2004 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Unhappily, the Oxford Concise English Dictonary. It didn't feel very f**king concise.

(Weird, I feel much more coy about swearing on ILB than on ILE. Is it because we are in the gutter but looking at the stars over here, and I don't want to lower the tone?)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

It's because swearing is bad, in books.

― the pomefox, Monday, 7 June 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Pshaw.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 7 June 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

You have to be a little more imaginative with your swearing on ILB.

You felching felch.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 7 June 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm, as I was in the middle of some horizontal tango lessons and the books were stacked on my bookshelf headboard, it was more a group of books... I do remember one as I panicked I had bent pages, "Letters of a Nation."

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Monday, 7 June 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

I have never dropped a book on my head.

The French composer Charles Valentin Alkan (declared by Liszt to be the greatest pianist of the age) died when he was attempting to retrieve a book from the top shelf and the whole case came down on him.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 19 May 2005 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

You might say it was "A Painful Case."

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 19 May 2005 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

*groan*

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 19 May 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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