As seen at Summa Mamas: What's your favorite thing to use for a bookmark? Or are you a page corner turner?
I'll dogear a page if nothing else is handy; otherwise it's the envelopes of old bills, business reply envelopes, the torn-off corners of paper towels. Pieces of ripped-up loan shark letters make good bookmarks if they're not too thick with reckless promises of cash. Basically, anything flat, flexible and disposable will do.
Back in my Rich Young Bachelor days when I visited bookstores and bought books in them, I'd save a book's receipt for a bookmark. And thus I can recall the very day in 1994 that I bought Mortimer Adler's "How to Read a Book" and started reading it at a now-defunct restaurant on the corner of Church and Randolph in Champaign.
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.—Lord Peter Wimsey
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And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.—St John of Patmos
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