The (Old) Book Thing

[Aemma]

Inspired by Styg's and The Wagnerian's posts in the Today I...thread, I thought I'd start this one in an effort to pool our resources a bit more tightly perhaps for those of us who are on the lookout for certain books or would like to share with others what notable additions they have recently acquired.


The Book Thing

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Today I...

Woke up early.
Went to The Book Thing, a warehouse that gives away books every weekend. During the week they get all kinds of book from Libraries, Schools, private collections, etc. and open the doors at 9am for their loyal customers (like me who are waiting outside for them to open).

I just discovered this little Heaven in Baltimore and have walked away with an average of 60 books each weekend (4 weekends total so far). They always have the classics; Divine Comedy, The Decameron, Canterbury Tales, Song of Roland, Iliad, Aeneid, The Odyssey, Beowulf, and they always have lots of Euripides/Sophocles/Aeschylus etc. They also always have a nice philosophy collection. This week I picked up an old, hardback version of Thus Spake Zarathustra, some Kierkegaard, Heidegger, almost all of Camus's works, about half of Marcuse's works, some J.S. Mill, Descartes, Bacon, More, and some others. They always have lots of Plato and Aristotle.

Last week I picked up a nice old, Hardback version of Aku-Aku by Thor Heyerdhal and Genetics and the Races of Man by Boyd.

Anyways, even if I have a great classic in my own collection already, if I see another, I grab it. One reason is because I collect different translations and another is because I imagine a hypothetical future in which I meet a person who likes the same stuff as me. Then I will give them my doubles.

For those that like the classics or philosophy, I wouldn't be oppose to either keeping an eye out for something you may want or sending you a copy of something I currently possess two of. I get so many books for free that the least I can do is give some away.


Today I obtained all 36 volumes of Wolfgang von Goethe's Sämtliche Werke for $95! I'm extremely excited with them, they're beautiful. They retail at around $25-$35 per volume, so to get the whole set for this price is wonderful.

In addition, they're beautifully bound and are published after the 1893 edition, so they're the same edition that Spengler owned (though I imagine a different printing). I'm a little miffed that a previous owner marked up the interior of one volume with ink taking notes - I hate it when people mark books like that. The rest of them are in pristine condition, however, and for this price who can complain?


I too like acquiring older books. It love their smell and feel and their look. I cannot NOT go into a used bookstore and just browse it seems. :shrug:

So far I've acquired the following:

A 1925 edition of John Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies and The Ethics of the Dust in one bound volume. I started reading the Ethics just a few nights ago and love it! It is in fabulous condition and still even has its red silk bookmark, although detached but still pretty and useful.

A 1954 reprint of the 1924 edition of Methuen's English Classics, Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.

The 1906 edition of E. V. Lucas' A Wanderer in Holland, complete with "20 illustrations in colour by Herbert Marshall and 34 illustrations after old Dutch masters." It too is in gorgeous condition.

A 1907 third impression of English Songs and Ballads compiled by T. W. H. Crosland, as well in great condition. (Stop coveting my stuff Ossi, Beornie and Wynfrith! :P)

And most recently I acquired the final volume of Will and Ariel Durant's The Story of Civilization X: Rousseau and Revolution, first printing 1967, complete with dust jacket too.

Now my challenge is to find the rest of this series!!

Any leads would be greatly appreciated! :)

[lei.talk]

Now my challenge is to find the rest of this series!!

Any leads would be greatly appreciated! :)
an addiction to physical books
developed in my formative years
(so much pleasure in a special form). :heartbea:

these titles may be conveniently referenced on-line:


http://i51.tinypic.com/2hpkr3a.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Civilization#External_links)
http://i53.tinypic.com/vmw50j.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Civilization#External_links)

[Beorn]

I too like acquiring older books. It love their smell and feel and their look.

It should be noted that Aemma has professed a love for the smell of books which may or may not have been read by people whilst sitting on the toilet.

I prefer to buy them fresh off the press myself, Aems :D

[Fortis in Arduis]

It should be noted that Aemma has professed a love for the smell of books which may or may not have been read by people whilst sitting on the toilet.

I prefer to buy them fresh off the press myself, Aems :D

British Lavatory Humour.

[Germanicus]

"Busman's view" by C, R, Wason. published by Ruskin house, George Allen & unwin LTD. Museum street, London. first published in 1958.

This book once belonged to my wifes father, it is in my library, picking it up and indeed smelling it made me come out in goosebumps, the book like myself was made in 1958.
Mrs Germanicus's father was a Trolley bus driver in the 50s and 60s in the city of Bradford, he was a collector of books, he had a vast library so i am told.
Most of his old books are neatly stored in a spare bedroom in my house, having the time to read them will take me years, all of the books are in a fine condition.

This evening i looked in Amazon to see if it had "Busmans view" it did not!

[2DREZQ]

And most recently I acquired the final volume of Will and Ariel Durant's The Story of Civilization X: Rousseau and Revolution, first printing 1967, complete with dust jacket too.

Now my challenge is to find the rest of this series!!

Any leads would be greatly appreciated! :)

There is a wonderful old used book store in Valley City, North Dakota. I was in there last week. At that time they had the entire series. I will be back there on or about the 3rd-6th of December. I could check on the price for you at that time, if you wish.

Best aquisition in years: Leonardo's Notebooks bound in leather. I feel smarter just looking at it.

[Aemma]

There is a wonderful old used book store in Valley City, North Dakota. I was in there last week. At that time they had the entire series. I will be back there on or about the 3rd-6th of December. I could check on the price for you at that time, if you wish.

Best aquisition in years: Leonardo's Notebooks bound in leather. I feel smarter just looking at it.

Oh please do! Thank you! It's much appreciated! :)

[Liffrea]

Most books I acquire are somewhat beat up, I generally like bent and creased spines, folded corners and pencil/note marks (never pen!) shows the book has been used for the purpose intended. I have several books from the 19th and early 20th century. Older and expensive books I tend to keep on the shelf, I have quality editions of several authors, I then acquire cheap paper back editions solely to hammer to oblivion for the knowledge in them.

My last acquisition was Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret, translated by John Oxenford in 1892. I also got a 1961 edition of Aesychylus’ plays Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes and The Persians.

I do, occasionally, buy new, I bought a King James Bible containing 100+ paintings and monochrome drawings by Rembrandt. It is a work of art. I had had a good week wheeling and dealing, so I thought why not.

Edit:

I to am a book smeller, it does not go down well in the book shops, especially if you have a cold. Some people sniff glue, I inhale books.

[Stygian Cellarius]

I too like acquiring older books. It love their smell and feel and their look. I cannot NOT go into a used bookstore and just browse it seems. :shrug:

Me either. I always drop at least $40.


So far I've acquired the following:

A 1925 edition of John Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies and The Ethics of the Dust in one bound volume. I started reading the Ethics just a few nights ago and love it! It is in fabulous condition and still even has its red silk bookmark, although detached but still pretty and useful.

A 1954 reprint of the 1924 edition of Methuen's English Classics, Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.

The 1906 edition of E. V. Lucas' A Wanderer in Holland, complete with "20 illustrations in colour by Herbert Marshall and 34 illustrations after old Dutch masters." It too is in gorgeous condition.

A 1907 third impression of English Songs and Ballads compiled by T. W. H. Crosland, as well in great condition. (Stop coveting my stuff Ossi, Beornie and Wynfrith! :P)

And most recently I acquired the final volume of Will and Ariel Durant's The Story of Civilization X: Rousseau and Revolution, first printing 1967, complete with dust jacket too.

Now my challenge is to find the rest of this series!!

Any leads would be greatly appreciated! :)

I will keep an eye out for the rest of that series at The Book Thing. I am pretty confident that I will cross a copy here and there. When I do I will let you know.

Here are some beauties I recently picked up:

Herbert Spencer's Various Fragments
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/Spencer1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/Spencer.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/Spencer2.jpg

The cover is very hard, a wood-like material. I believe this to be the first edition. I remember being sure of it when I got it, but cannot recall the basis for that belief. Which has been happening to me alot lately. Old age I suppose :/

Marcus Arelius's Meditations (no date)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/Meditations1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/Meditations2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/Meditations4.jpg

Plutarch's Twelve Lives, translated by John Dryden (of Aeneid translation fame). This one not as old.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/Plutarch.jpg

[2DREZQ]

About 12 years ago I went through my library and picked out most of the best pre-1900 volumes (Ebers Picturesque Egypt-Vol 1, Dawin's Origin of Species-limited edition 1871, etc.) and sold them on eBay. I needed the money.

I still miss them all, but at the time it seemed the logical thing to do.

[Stygian Cellarius]

And most recently I acquired the final volume of Will and Ariel Durant's The Story of Civilization X: Rousseau and Revolution, first printing 1967, complete with dust jacket too.

Now my challenge is to find the rest of this series!!

Any leads would be greatly appreciated! :)


I will keep an eye out for the rest of that series at The Book Thing. I am pretty confident that I will cross a copy here and there. When I do I will let you know.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/TheStoryofCivilisation.jpg

My word is good ;)

Volumes II, III and the one you already have, damnit.

[Stygian Cellarius]

Ta-da.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/TSOCI-Copy.jpg

I found some more today inside of nice book covers. They are in very good condition.

I know that they are not expensive to buy used via Amazon, but these are yours if you want them. Just an option to consider. They aren't going anywhere. They will just be sitting here in my apt. If you decide you want them then just shoot me a message and I will send them your way―free of charge.

No need to decide now. I'm just informing you of an option :)

[Aemma]

Ta-da.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/TSOCI-Copy.jpg

I found some more today inside of nice book covers. They are in very good condition.

I know that they are not expensive to buy used via Amazon, but these are yours if you want them. Just an option to consider. They aren't going anywhere. They will just be sitting here in my apt. If you decide you want them then just shoot me a message and I will send them your way―free of charge.

No need to decide now. I'm just informing you of an option :)

Ahh Styg that is mighty kind of you. I hardly know what to say! :)

[Stygian Cellarius]

A new addition :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/AgeofNapoleon.jpg

[Aemma]

Ok ok ok...I'm taking them! Psy and Ossi keep your paws off! :P They're mine!! :D

I'll send you a PM shortly Styg to iron out the details and such. How can I thank you? :) Your generosity is overwhelming. I am speechless.

Thank you!...Aemma :)

[Psychonaut]

Let's just say that the Yuletide lasted a bit longer than usual this year:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=6680&stc=1&d=1294187169

My immediate reaction upon opening the box:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=6681&stc=1&d=1294187169

[Osweo]

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=6681&stc=1&d=1294187169

VERY nice! I can make all of them out except the plain red one. What's that?

[Psychonaut]

VERY nice! I can make all of them out except the plain red one. What's that?

Thomas More's Utopia and Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis collected in a single volume (http://books.google.com/books?id=wx5bAAAAMAAJ&q=more%27s+utopia+bacon%27s+atlantis+goitein&dq=more%27s+utopia+bacon%27s+atlantis+goitein&hl=en&ei=2sYjTa_MNM6s8Abt5YX8DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA).

[Stygian Cellarius]

...and another. Now this IS a beauty. Perfect condition.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/SoC8.jpg




Ok ok ok...I'm taking them! Psy and Ossi keep your paws off! :P They're mine!! :D

I'll send you a PM shortly Styg to iron out the details and such. How can I thank you? :) Your generosity is overwhelming. I am speechless.

Thank you!...Aemma :)

It's my pleasure. Honestly. Todays find, Vol. XIII, will be a nice addition. Definitely the best quality one I have found yet. There are sure to be others though. I have found at least one a week so far.

and yeah, the books aren't going anywhere so whenever you are ready I will send em' your way.



Let's just say that the Yuletide lasted a bit longer than usual this year:

I'm glad you liked them. That Treatise of Human Nature is a real treat.

[Osweo]

Damn, I wish Styg liked me. :cry2



This warehouse just GIVES them away?!?!? I'd go with a TRUCK! :D God, reminds me of when I was about 17. My school was building a new library, and getting rid of old books. They were mostly ending up SENT TO ZAMBIA! :eek::rage:suomut:

I took boxes upon boxes. I can't imagine WHAT Zambians would make of 'Sweden as a Great Power', biographies of Aleksandr I and Nikolai I, Das Niebelungenlied (in Old High German!), The Great Peasant Revolt, Soviet Short Stories, The Fall of Constantinople, and many volumes of the Thames and Hudson 'Peoples and Places' series (including The Anglo-Saxons, The Scythians, The Greeks Before Alexander, The Seljuk Turks, Early Christian Ireland and more...).

Sadly, I've been separated from the very sight of them for several years. :( They're in storage at my Dad's works, and while I've been in and out taking what I needed at the time, their absence pains me. :cry

[Stygian Cellarius]

Damn, I wish Styg liked me. :cry2

You're likeable. :p

I would send you some as well, but I imagine that shipping would be outrageous. Not that I really know how much it would be. I can send pounds and pounds of books to fellow North Americans for very cheap.

I did however, imagine you may like these:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/RussianLit1-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/RussianLit2-1.jpg

They are a beautiful red and gold. Perfect condition. Ima keepn' em tho.


This warehouse just GIVES them away?!?!? I'd go with a TRUCK! :D God, reminds me of when I was about 17. My school was building a new library, and getting rid of old books. They were mostly ending up SENT TO ZAMBIA! :eek::rage:suomut:

Yup, just gives them away. I have something to look forward to every week.

[Osweo]

I'll cry myself to sleep now. :suomut:

[Psychonaut]

I'm glad you liked them. That Treatise of Human Nature is a real treat.

Indeed! Rearranging my library to accommodate the new family members has been a blast. One further thing that I'd ask you to keep an eye out for, if you don't mind, is any stuff from the old Neoplatonists like Iamblichus, Psuedo-Dionysus, Sallustius, Plotinus, etc.

[Stygian Cellarius]

Indeed! Rearranging my library to accommodate the new family members has been a blast.

Yeah I always love rearranging my bookshelf. I need to buy at least two new ones though. I even have to move out of my apartment because I don't have enough room for my books anymore.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/Overflow.jpg

...and there's about the same amount that is on the floor behind me as well.


One further thing that I'd ask you to keep an eye out for, if you don't mind, is any stuff from the old Neoplatonists like Iamblichus, Psuedo-Dionysus, Sallustius, Plotinus, etc.

Hehe, those are very difficult to find at physical books stores/The Book Thing. I don't even have those, but they are all in my "wish-list" on Amazon. Sallustius and Iamblichus are especially hard to find. I do have Plotinus' Enneads in a Neoplatonism compilation though. The only other Neoplatonic work I have (other than the comp.) is Proclus' fragments.

If I find them I would imagine them either being included in a compilation or a Loeb Classical Edition or both.

It might take a long time before I run across any of them at The Book Thing. I have yet to see them nor have I ever saw a Loeb Classical Library edition of anything whatsoever either, but I am surprised quite a bit and usually when something pops up that I have never saw, there are a bunch of them all the sudden. Like this past weekend I found 2 copies of Njal's Saga. Also, I had not seen a copy of Hobbes' Leviathan until I bought it. Then there was one there every week :ohwell:

[Aemma]

...and another. Now this IS a beauty. Perfect condition.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/SoC8.jpg





It's my pleasure. Honestly. Todays find, Vol. XIII, will be a nice addition. Definitely the best quality one I have found yet. There are sure to be others though. I have found at least one a week so far.

and yeah, the books aren't going anywhere so whenever you are ready I will send em' your way.




I'm glad you liked them. That Treatise of Human Nature is a real treat.

Wow! It's gorgeous! :) Thank you so much Styg! :)

[Stygian Cellarius]

These are just a small fraction of book I got today from The Book Thing.

The 6th & 7th from the top right, the large brown ones are Vol. 1 & 2 of Thomas Aquinas' complete works. The red one to the left of them is C.G. Jung's selected works. To the right of them are two copies of The Republic and Bacon's essays.

[Psychonaut]

These are just a small fraction of book I got today from The Book Thing.

The 6th & 7th from the top right, the large brown ones are Vol. 1 & 2 of Thomas Aquinas' complete works. The red one to the left of them is C.G. Jung's selected works. To the right of them are two copies of The Republic and Bacon's essays.

Nice find! You rarely see Whitehead and Ouspensky in any book stores. :thumbs up

[Stygian Cellarius]

Nice find! You rarely see Whitehead and Ouspensky in any book stores. :thumbs up

Aye, and that's the 2nd copy of Tertium Organum that I picked up there. Do I have a false memory or did I see a different print of that book in your collection? One that has pink on the cover? If so, that's the other version I picked up a few months back.

I also thought it nice to find the Whitehead book as well because I read you just mentioning him on this forum.

[Psychonaut]

Aye, and that's the 2nd copy of Tertium Organum that I picked up there. Do I have a false memory or did I see a different print of that book in your collection? One that has pink on the cover? If so, that's the other version I picked up a few months back.

Negative. My only copy of the Organum is a PDF, although, to be honest, I've only perused it so far. Most of my knowledge of Ouspensky is second hand, from reading Rucker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Rucker).


I also thought it nice to find the Whitehead book as well because I read you just mentioning him on this forum.

Well, you picked the best place to start. That's certainly the easiest of his books to dig into.

[Aemma]

These are just a small fraction of book I got today from The Book Thing.

The 6th & 7th from the top right, the large brown ones are Vol. 1 & 2 of Thomas Aquinas' complete works. The red one to the left of them is C.G. Jung's selected works. To the right of them are two copies of The Republic and Bacon's essays.

Wow! Dennett, Rousseau and Jung! Awesome! :thumb001:

[Loddfafner]

Let's just say that the Yuletide lasted a bit longer than usual this year:

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=6680&stc=1&d=1294187169


I see you've run off with another of my bookshelves (bookcase #3, lower lefthand shelf). It's ok, I need the room, but I'd like to consult the Frankfurt School books before posting a more documented version of my rant about why conspiracy theories that feature them are especially retarded. :)

[Osweo]

my rant about why conspiracy theories that feature them are especially retarded.

They got to you, Lodd. Saddening to see that even YOU have your price when the NWO come knocking. Especially after your impervious resistance to all those honeytraps they set up for you... :cry2

[Stygian Cellarius]

The books in the attached photo are what I picked up at The Book Thing today.

The large green one at the bottom if the Philosophy stack is The Complete Essays of Schopenhauer.
The large black one at the bottom of the Classics pile is The Complete works of Raeblais. Two up from that is a nice hardback copy of Don Quixote. In perfect condition minus the book cover.
The one at the bottom of the poetry stack is Two Anglo-Saxon Plays.

[CelticTemplar]

I recently purchased the "Great Ages of Man " collection, covering everything from Rome, to The French Revolution, to Tsarist Russia, and Imperial China. They are older books that I got from and older man in my neighborhood, he was a history teacher.

If you like, I could post a few pics.

[Stygian Cellarius]

Some pretties I recently acquired:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/BaconScottCervante1.jpg

[Electronic God-Man]

How do I get in on this? Where are they and when?

I know this info was given before but humor me.

[Aemma]

Don't do it, Styg. Soten'll get all of my books! :P :D

[Stygian Cellarius]

Don't do it, Styg. Soten'll get all of my books! :P :D

No worries. He gave me the one and only bad reputation point that I've ever received―in any forum. :shakefist


Anyways, I must show off this book I picked up at The Book Thing the other day. It is probably my prize find. Not that it is old or anything, but it is just so beautiful and I love this book more than I can say. It is John Dryden's translation of the Aeneid.

Look at the beautiful embossed cover:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/AeneidCover.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/AeneidBinding.jpg
and beautiful artwork preceding each chapter:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/AeneidBookIII.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/AeneidBookVII.jpg

[Aemma]

***Aemma's jaw drops***


It's gorgeous! Why aren't publishers putting out such lovely books anymore? :(

[Stygian Cellarius]

I hit the jackpot today. The philosophy section at The Book Thing was full. I am a happy man.

[Aemma]

I hit the jackpot today. The philosophy section at The Book Thing was full. I am a happy man.

Oh some Rousseau, Moliere and Derrida! Lucky! :thumbs up

I see you got a Whitehead in there too! ;) :D

[Stygian Cellarius]

Oh some Rousseau, Moliere and Derrida! Lucky! :thumbs up

I see you got a Whitehead in there too! ;) :D

Oh yeah, I got LOTS of Moliere, Lots of Rousseau, but that is the first time I ran across Derrida. I snatched that up quick. And yup, the third Whitehead book I chanced upon.

Tomorrow I get another batch :D

[Stygian Cellarius]

My Philosophy collection expanded quite a bit since the last time I posted photos of them and I love showing my books off. I love my books. It is because of them that boredom never burdens me―ever. I cannot even remember the last time I was bored. It must be years since.

[Psychonaut]

My Philosophy collection expanded quite a bit since the last time I posted photos of them and I love showing my books off. I love my books. It is because of them that boredom never burdens me―ever. I cannot even remember the last time I was bored. It must be years since.

Wait...

Do you have your Phil section in chronological order? That's brilliant. I've been doing alphabetical all these years and now feel like a jackass. :embarrassed

[Stygian Cellarius]

Wait...

Do you have your Phil section in chronological order? That's brilliant. I've been doing alphabetical all these years and now feel like a jackass. :embarrassed

YES! :D

I cannot stress enough the utility and convenience of that arrangement.

I first decided to do it when I made the decision to read them chronologically, but I soon discovered other advantages.


1. Helps me learn the chronology. Which, in itself has many advantages.

Learn the order of publication.
Learn the order of ideas -> idea evolution.
Learn when a philosopher lived. Their philosophical context. Their context relative to other philosophers.

2. I can look at my library like a timeline of ideas. If one has good enough knowledge of history, he can see how ideas influence history. You can see when a certain work was published and the corresponding shift in politics, society, economics, zeitgeist, etc.

I get a lot out of the arrangement of my books and I am quite fond of them so I look at them all the time. The order has been committed to memory and since I at least have one work by every major philosopher, I can tell you what century they lived in and who came before/after (via memory).

[Osweo]

Wtf? Arrangement by height, colour and attractiveness of binding is vastly superior. :strokebeard:

[Stygian Cellarius]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/Casen/SoCiv.jpg

I picked up some more yesterday. I think I'm going to toss the ones with no covers/not-so-pretty and wait for better ones to poof into existence.

I almost have the entire set. Missing just 1 of them.

[Stygian Cellarius]

Actually, I do have all of them. Just found The Age of Voltaire and 3 other duplicates in a pile of books. :)

[Aemma]

Actually, I do have all of them. Just found The Age of Voltaire and 3 other duplicates in a pile of books. :)

Ohh you haven't forgotten about me have you? I'll gladly take the discards!! :)

[Stygian Cellarius]

Ohh you haven't forgotten about me have you? I'll gladly take the discards!! :)

Dear Aemma,

None of those books are for me. They're yours.

Stygian

[Aemma]

Dear Aemma,

None of those books are for me. They're yours.

Stygian

But they look so good in your bookcase! :) Are you absolutely positive?

[Stygian Cellarius]

But they look so good in your bookcase! :) Are you absolutely positive?

I am. Besides, I can get more easily. You see how quickly I acquired those already.