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we felt the anniversary was worth marking.To celebrate(and also to reflect),we asked some of our authors,designers,illustrators and collaborators for a personal responseto the number forty.It turns out that it is a truly meaningfuland fascinating number.  \nFor example,the number forty is used in Jewish,Christian,Islamic,and other Middle Eastern traditions to represent alarge,approximate number:'umpteen’;forty is the number ofweeks for an average term of pregnancy;forty is the customarynumber of hours in a working week;rain fell for ‘forty days andforty nights'during the Flood;forty is the only number with itsletters in alphabetical order;Jesus fasted for forty days andnights...  \nAnd it was forty years ago that we published The Comic Talesof Edgar Allan Poe,the first of thousands of titles to bear theCanongate name.Publishing books is a passion,a joy,a  \nstruggle and a privilege and we look forward with excitementto the next forty years.We hope you find the eighty pages thatfollow both comic and thought-provoking.  \nRead on.  \nForty Acre  \nForty Acre was a meadow along the banks of the River Trentthat ran from the village of Kelham to the village of Averhama mile away,and it was our playground.The boys in the tinyschool run by the Fathers of the Sacred Mission at Kelham Hallwent to Forty Acre to walk and bird watch and swim in theriver;and I used to go there to look at clouds and enter theirnames in a chart-cirrus nimbus stratus.  \nOne night in my first term,a plane fell from the sky ontoForty Acre.We prayed for the dead airmen in chapel the nextmorning when we were told Forty Acre was out of boundsbecause the Royal Air Force would be clearing the wreckage.I did not then know what W.H.Auden later taught me,thatabout suffering the Old Masters were never wrong,and thatwhen tremendous events are happening 'there must always bechildren who did not specially want it to happen?  \nWeeks later,when the bodies had been removed and thewreckage had been cleared,we returned to our playground inForty Acre to find it changed forever.We gazed into theplane-shaped crater and thought of men falling from the skyto die here while we slept  \nWe learned to play again and swim in the river and I continuedto look up at the clouds -cirrus nimbus stratus-but nowI knew that men could fall as well as fly.  \nRichard Holloway,author of Leaving Alexandria  \nForty Things On Fortieth Street  \n1 A man in deer-hunter camouflage,scanning the sidewalkfor coins or cans.  \n2 A red-headed boy...  \n3 Anxiously towing a sinister balloon.  \n4 HORNS.  \n5 MORE HORNS.  \n6 The bump and grind of traffic.  \n7 Three delivery boys playing tag.  \n8 Two packs of cornflakes in a payphone booth.  \n9 EXTRA/MENTOS/RAISINETS/TWIZZLERS/TIC TAC/SOUR PATCH/SWEDISH FISH/  \n10 Mail cart.  \n11(No mail man.)  \n12 Philly cheese steak.  \n13 All the flags on Fifth,waggling in the wind.  \n14 A dog with a mop of hair like Andy Warhol's wig.  \n15 Two builders,running to beat the 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