Hey the Henry Miller Library’s End of Summer Sale ends in four hours! That’d be today, Friday, at 6 pm California-time.

You can get 20-30% of books, posters, and t-shirts! That’d be a nice Christmas gift, right? And you’re supporting your favorite non-profit book store in the process.

After this we’ll cut back from the hard-selling. We realize it can get gross (go here.)

And trust us: summer is definitely over. We’re experiencing February-like rain at the moment. We’re wearing galoshes, putting tarps up, trudging around in wet socks, tipping over garbage cans in the pitch-black darkness, and getting all psycho, Shining-style.

Oh hey, speaking of a mediation of madness and endings, let’s let a modified version of Jim Morrison’s tone-poem ease us into another winter of existential longing:
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The End

This is the end (of the Henry Miller Library End of Summer Sale)
Beautiful friend
This is the end (of the Henry Miller Library End of Summer Sale)
My only friend, the end (of the Henry Miller Library End of Summer Sale)

Of our hard-selling elaborate online marketing plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I’ll never look into your eyes…again

Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need of some books, posters, and t-shirts (20-30% off)
In a…desperate land

Lost in a Roman…wilderness of Big Sur
And all the clerks are insane
All the clerks are insane
Waiting for the dry season that is roughly May 15th-Oct 15th

There’s danger on the edge of town
Ride the Rt. 1 highway, baby
Weird scenes inside Fernwood
Ride the highway west, baby

Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake…he’s old, and his skin is cold

The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here, and we’ll do the rest

Sven’s ’84 Ford Econoline is callin’ us
Sven’s ’84 Ford Econoline is callin’ us
Driver, where you taken’ us

The Swedish hippie awoke before dawn in his van
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the path to the HML
He went into the room where Mike lived, and…then he
Paid a visit to Keely, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door…and he looked inside
Magnus, yes Sven, I want to….get a 30%-off HML American Apparel t-shirt
Mother…I want to…..buy the Come to Big Sur Package!!! yeahh yeah yeahh!!

C’mon baby, take a chance with us
C’mon baby, take a chance with us
C’mon baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of Sven’s ’84 Ford Econoline
Doin’ a blue rock
On in the back of Sven’s ’84 Ford Econoline
Doin’ a blue rock
C’mon, yeah

This is the end (of the Henry Miller Library End of Summer sale)
Beautiful friend
This is the end (of the Henry Miller Library End of Summer sale)
My only friend, the end (of the Henry Miller Library End of Summer sale)

It hurts to set you free
But you’ll never follow me
The end of laughter and discounted merchandise
The end of nights we tried make a buck

This is the end (of the Henry Miller Library End of Summer sale)