Object of desire

OK, here's mine. Le Cobusier's chaise longue. The original, from the Bauhaus.

Why? Well the design is perfect & it looks mightily comfortable.
It would be the only piece of furniture in a perfectly-sized room ... not another thing in there, apart from a well chosen plant, perhaps. The room would have no other distracting features, would be painted a neutral off-white colour & have polished floorboards. A quiet place, lit by sunlight, for thinking, reading & meditation ... Perfect!

Well?

Nothing you've coveted, dreamed of having?

Nothing at all?

i'm thinking, i don't want to waste my one desire

I know, djjd!

It was very easy for me, as I've been dreaming of having that reclining lounge for years & years!

When I was 6 years old, I first saw a Luger P-'08: slick & sleek.
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Quite a few years passed b4 I coud find one.
Then one from 1940 fell into my hands for $600. Sweet deal.
I don 't know its provenance; shoud be interesting, leading to a good result.

Something else as to which I felt that way was a $10 Gold Piece from 1795,
which is now the center piece of my old Gold collection.
1795 was the first year of issue of ANY Gold from the USA,
in its highest denomination (until thay struck Gold in California in 1849).

George Washington picked up a feather and used it to sign
a statute authorizing Alexander Hamilton to mint that coin.

One of those things that you think you'd like, and can't get out of your head until you eventually recieve it.
The shops are shut, and the local one doesn't even sell Jelly beans anyway

Right then, David. And you got it. (the gun, I mean.)

How did you manage to locate the $10 gold piece?

Why that choice, chai?

No problem with the choice, you understand ...

Ah but there's always tomorrow, Abbie!

Though I can certainly understand the desire for instant gratification when it comes to jelly beans!

I got it at Stack's, America 's oldest coin store.
Thay have several Ph.D.s on staff to judge authenticity of relics.

odd choice, but i'd love to have pristine copies of these books

Weird Heroes, "New American Pulp", was a series of novels and anthologies produced by Byron Preiss in the 1970s that dealt with new heroic characters inspired by the classic pulp magazine characters. And like the pulps, the series was also heavy on art, having many well-known artists illustrate the stories.
The series was 'packaged' by Byron Preiss Visual Productions and was published by Pyramid/Jove/HBJ. Four of the books are anthologies, four are novels. During the same time, Preiss was also produced the Fiction Illustrated series with the same publisher.

Unfortunately, most of the characters were never seen after the demise of WH. Preiss did write one novel about his character Guts, and planned a second. This was published by Ace Books, maybe as part of a 'revival' of the concept as single novels. Tor Books reprinted Philip José Farmer's Greatheart Silver stories in a single volume with new art and Reaves's character Kamus appeared in 2 books by other publishers. A lot of these characters had potential and it is unfortunate they did not continue. Most of the authors hoped to write more about these characters. Ron Goulart's "Quest of the Gypsy" was meant to be a series of novels, the first lasting 3-4 novels, but we have only seen two.

Recently, the first volume was reprinted by iBooks, but no word if further books will be reprinted as iBooks has gone bankrupt following Preiss's death.

Weird Heroes #1 *

Greatheart Silver in the Showdown at Shootout, Philip José Farmer
Quest of the Gypsy, Ron Goulart
Adam Stalker: The Darkstar File, Archie Goodwin
Rose in the Sunshine State, Joann Kobin
Guts, the Cosmic Greaser, Byron Preiss

Weird Heroes #2

Doc Phoenix, Ted White
Cordwainer Bird in "The New York Review of Bird", Harlan Ellison
The Camden Kid, Charlie Swift
Viva, Steve Engelhart
SPV 166, The Underground Express, Elliot S. Maggin
The Return of Greatheart Silver, Philip José Farmer

Weird Heroes #3 *

Quest of the Gypsy Ron Goulart

Weird Heroes #4

Nightshade: Terror, Inc. Tappan King & Beth Meacham

Weird Heroes #5

Doc Phoenix: The Oz Encounter Marv Wolfman/Ted White

Weird Heroes #6 *

Shinbet Investigates, Ron Goulart
Orion, Ben Bova
50 Years of Heroes: The Edmond Hamilton Papers, Edmond Hamilton
Greatheart Silver in the First Command, Philip José Farmer
Galactic Gumshoe: a Franklin Davis Thriller, Arthur Byron Cover

Weird Heroes #7 *
Quest of the Gypsy: Eye of the Vulture (Ron Goulart)

Weird Heroes #8

Seward: The Deep Fix Michael Moorcock
Kamus: The Big Spell J. Michael Reaves
Orion 2: Flood Tide (Ben Bova)
Kamus 2: The Maltese Vulcan (Reaves)
Robeson: The Grant-Robeson Papers "Savage Shadow" (Maxwell Grant [Farmer])

* i own really battered copies of these editions

Excellent work, David!

(Sounds like quite a coin collection you've got there.)

Not an odd choice for you at all, djjd!
Completely in character.
I'm not remotely surprised.

OK, I'm hoping the rest of you are giving this serious matter lots of thought!

It's a very serious decision, I know ....

I'd pine for my own garden. I seriously don't think I'll ever have one.

The only car I've ever wanted:

ILL SWAP YOU A GARDEN for one of these, All you CAp'ers have one of these around the boat house.

Its A HINKLEY TALARIA 65

Yeah, I know you do, k.
And there's a patch of earth out there just waiting for you to transform it into something splendid.
I seriously hope that you & that patch of earth cross paths before too much longer. You were made for each other!