While in the Bay, I will pop into my favourite op-shop to check out their book section. If I do find anything above the usual dross — Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" would be nice — I'll let you know in my next post."
Which is how I closed off yesterday's post, and, while I didn't find Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus", I picked up a hardcover copy of "The Body - A Guide for Occupants" by Bill Bryson. I had bought it many months ago as a brandnew paperback, but there it was, as a hardcover and still in mint condition. Someone had bought it in Indonesia for 280,000 rupiah.
I still haven't read the paperback from cover to cover but merely dipped into the sections that interested me most, but now I shall go straight to my still new hardcover copy and read all 450 pages right to the end, which begins with the quote, "Eat sensibly. Exercise regularly. Die anyway." And that's you gone. But it was good while it lasted, wasn't it?
