Truly fantastic score over the holidays, found in the basement of the Literacy Nanaimo store for a measly 5 bucks during half-price boxing week, all ten volumes of an in-decent-shape late 40's edition of The Children's Encyclopedia edited by Arthur Mee, which I must have checked out of the libraries of Ayr a thousand times. I've been looking for a set for some time, but not for the 100 plus shipping I'd found it for online. Just how formative these books were to the development (for good or ill) of my mental habits and worldview didn't become fully clear until I curled up with them, each deeply etched illustration finding its latent impression in my mind--not to mention, the wandering Oxford commas...for a Quicktime movie version look here...