“The world’s the same, there’s just less in it.”
remembering Martin Stone..book hound_
“We’re all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?”
Martin Stone; patron saint of lost books and booksellers. (photographer unknown, but it’s a great jacket)
Martin Stone has moved on. The tip-tapping man of many pockets, drainpipe legs and dangling Gauloises has succumbed to a grim and irresistible disease. The flea markets of Paris and the stalls of Portobello should, by rights, be islands of silence.
Not for too long though, Martin wouldn’t like that, just a minute or two of quiet, slightly damp, reflection followed by a shrug and a return to bustling commerce.
His kind of memorial would involve a knowing nod and the production of some specially secreted oddity from under a stall; a sly grin and a “I thought you might come by. Take a look at this.”
Stop all the clocks, shut the bloody dog up, all that stuff. He dealt…
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