I have neglected my Redbook

lcoopie · June 24, 2008 9:06AM

I really haven't looked at it in a while
but there is really a wealth of info
there for the taking

I have been reading in the back
about the
"Great Collectors and Collections of the Past"
and it is fascinating reading

the price guide is not all that accurate as
most know

but the info in one book is unreal

I have to get the newest edition soon

Dentuck · June 25, 2008 6:07AM

lcoopie, your post almost reads like a haiku!

A Red Book Haiku

I pick up a coin;
The design is strange to me.
R. S. Yeoman: "Help!"

ricko · June 25, 2008 6:09AM

Amazing what can be learned from a book... another poster, earlier today, indicated he did not need a book. Most numismatists realize that they do not know everything, and seek out sources of information. Good for you... Cheers, RickO

RWB · June 25, 2008 6:16AM

Have never had to replace the battery in a book, or restore a dropped network connection, or wait for power to be restored. Last power outage, my wired telephone continued to work just fine, and I could sit on the front steps and read a book.

lcoopie · June 25, 2008 7:56AM

<< <i>lcoopie, your post almost reads like a haiku!

A Red Book Haiku

I pick up a coin;
The design is strange to me.
R. S. Yeoman: "Help!"
>>

Dentuck-You are right
Haiku=a form of japanese poetry
Because most Japanese words are polysyllabic, with very short sounds (like the syllables in the three-syllable English word "radio", but unlike the one-syllable words "thought" or "stressed"), the seventeen sounds of a Japanese haiku carry less information than would seventeen syllables. Consequently, writing seventeen syllables in English typically produces a poem that is significantly "longer" than a traditional Japanese haiku. As a result, the great majority of literary haiku writers in English write their poems using about ten to fourteen syllables, with no formal pattern.

[edit] Examples
Possibly the best known Japanese haiku is Bash¨'s "old pond" haiku:
¹Å³Ø¤äÍÜïwÞz¤àË®¤ÎÒô
Roughly translated:[4]
old pond
a frog jumps
the sound of water
Another example of classic hokku by Matsuo Bash¨:[5]

¸»Ê¿¤ÎïL¤äÉÈ¤Ë¤Î¤»¤Æ½‘õÍÁ®b
fuji no kaze ya oogi ni nosete Edo miyage
the wind of Mt. Fuji
I've brought on my fan!
a gift from Edo

And yet another Bash¨ classic:
³õ¤·¤°¤ìÔ³¤âÐ¡Ëò¤ò¤Û¤·¤²Ò²
hatsu shigure saru mo komino wo hoshige nari
the first cold shower
even the monkey seems to want
a little coat of straw

chaze215 · June 25, 2008 11:47AM

<< <i>the price guide is not all that accurate as
most know

but the info in one book is unreal >>

What price guides do most use for buying and selling.....whether it on Ebay, BST ect...?

chaze215 · June 25, 2008 11:48AM

etc... Sorry.

I have neglected my Redbook

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