Who said only the rich make academic endowments?

And guess what?  Thats what this entry is about. In my offloading drive, today's moves mean I am well halfway through having disposed of my room's unwanted literature. All hope of registering any monetary gain from the move was understood as misplaced when every bookden from ulsoor to avenue said 'no - we don't do it'. the little spitballs. as i speak they ferment in froth in their dens as encyclopedia-size worms work their way through their stockpiles, having first bound the victims to their chairs.
Anyway- the point is that I put a few of the books into a box and tuk-tukked to the alma-mate(r), went to the lab and hoping to have it acknowledged looked about arms akimbo proprietarily at allastruggle and  was asked to wait - which no person with even pretensions to dignity should have done. I was half-noble at the end of it. And that much less ...