What style is this?

[rayheinrich]

There are styles of readers just as there are styles of writers

Some find a trail and hunt along it singlemindedly, determined to miss nothing.  Others just kind of wander along, sampling everything until they find a pile of something that catches their interest and then they roll around in it until it covers them.

In the olden days I wandered among used book stores in the pursuit of piles to roll in.
My Comstock Lode came from a bookstore called "Silverfish*"

The first time I looked there I found one tiny shelf of poetry -- only hard-bound classics.
I asked the owner if there was any "contemporary" stuff and he said he threw it away
because he knew it wouldn't sell. I offered him $5 a box if he'd save it for me and he did.


*Consummate readers:
   
    Silverfish food for thought.

"Before silverfish reproduce they carry out a ritual involving three phases, which may last over half an hour.
In the first phase, the male and female stand face to face, their trembling antennae touching, then repeatedly
back off and return to this position. In the second phase the male runs away and the female chases him.
In the third phase the male and female stand side by side and head-to-tail, with the male vibrating his tail
against the female. Finally the male lays a spermatophore, a sperm capsule covered in gossamer, which
the female takes into her body via her ovipositor to fertilise her eggs." - from Wiki Silverfish