I would put the "negative" negatives into brown envelopes in a secret compartment in my desk.
So the other amazing thing in Kierkegaard's Either/Or or two amazing things, I should say, are "The Seducer's Diary" chapter at the end of the book and the fact that he pretended that the whole piece was just a manuscript that he had found in the secret compartment of a desk, or, as he says, an escritoire (or as the translators, Hong and Hong, say he says) he bought at a second-hand store.
Choose between a desk with compartments or without compartments.
But the desk has compartments for things like, what?
Keep stain removers, wipes, a small sewing kit, nail polish and lint remover in your purse, desk drawer or glove compartment.
If you're the kind of person to gather around books, papers and diverse objects you have to find a desk with lots of various compartments to fit all these items.
These huge sums of money are not stashed under mattresses or in secret desk-drawer compartments.
Mr. Lippert's company sells complete "mobile office vehicles" -- luxurious conversion vans outfitted with desks and leather chairs in the rear compartment.
The most typical pieces are the sideboard (a piece of dining room furniture with compartments and shelves for dishes) and the small secretary desk, both of which developed a peculiarly American form.
Lifting the heavy lid of the gramophone, she breathed in the forbidden smell of the records nestled in their felt-lined compartments, then touched the pages heaped on her father's desk: his meaning, densely tangled in his black italic writing, seemed more accessible through her fingertips in the dark than it ever was in daylight, when its difficulty thwarted her.
