Saturday, October 17, 2009

Here's a picture taken from the Greens College Tower Observatory. Ignore the wasted construction site in the foreground--they're building something to do with the hospital. Take a look at that cool looking Romanesque building. It is, in fact, Oxford University Press. I was walking to an old church in the Jericho part of Oxford when I thought, "My, what an interesting building to my left." Then I passed the entrance and read its title. Suddenly, my vague notion of the Oxford UP, where the dictionaries and other everyday books of my life come from, was connected with a concrete image. Sort of like finding yourself at the Emerald City and discovering that it's not an imaginary place.

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