http://www.blackmarks.net/2005/11/15/a-boxed-dream/ "The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story." -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Writer, Reader, Amateur Interneter, Father and Life Chronicler. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:04:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.blackmarks.net/2005/11/15/a-boxed-dream/#comment-1966 black marks on wood pulp » Close the book on this, please! Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:15:40 +0000 http://cdub.driscocity.com/index.php/2005/11/15/a-boxed-dream/#comment-1966 [...] I’ve twice been outbid at the last second in my attempts to secure a Pocket Penguins 70th Anniversary box set. Twice I’ve bid £50, and twice I was either outbid at the last second with no option to raise, or my computer was so slow (at work, no less) that I didn’t even stand a chance. Obtaining this box set has been the bane of my existance for the past six months — torturing me daily as it slowly sold out. [...] [...] I’ve twice been outbid at the last second in my attempts to secure a Pocket Penguins 70th Anniversary box set. Twice I’ve bid £50, and twice I was either outbid at the last second with no option to raise, or my computer was so slow (at work, no less) that I didn’t even stand a chance. Obtaining this box set has been the bane of my existance for the past six months — torturing me daily as it slowly sold out. [...]

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