Knowledge and Closure

When I packed up and relocated to the UK, just over two years ago, I predicted I would miss a lot of things, not least the language. So I arranged subscriptions to two of the magazines I consistently bought back there. At least a monthly or bimonthly dose of Greek would make up for not having my entire Greek library with me.

At the beginning of June I got an email from the publisher informing me that one of the magazines was folding. Granted, it was a niche publication, a bimonthly review dealing with obscure aspects of history (Nightbird would have loved it), and it was close to miraculous that it managed to run for 15 issues. Anyway, the party is over, and now I have the complete set of material to start translating for that writing project of mine on WordPress, that has been lying dormant for far too long…

To the publisher’s credit, they informed me that they owed me back €46, the whole of my prepaid subscription, and invited me to choose something else from their catalogue to cover it, since they could not refund the actual sum. So I plumbed for a few special editions that the same magazine had been bringing out – quarterly collections of papers on even more obscure topics. They arrived in the post today. I love 96-page magazines that can genuinely freak out anyone curious enough to read over my shoulder on the bus (which has happened more than once, back in Athens *snickers*). And I love doing business with people into good accounts.

~ by M on June 29, 2009.