It's funny you should offer a box of "fresh Colorado air" Bryan. Just minutes ago I was progressing slowly through The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, that book I bought at Book People the night of Dr. Randall's poetry reading and never read past the first twenty pages, and in the book this dead guy bequeaths an 'empty' box for the main character. And I just read that part before I checked the blog site, if that explains my excitement. It's an excellent book, you should all read it. But why I'm bringing up the book is because! I was cheating and skimming through in the pages ahead, and between pages 370 and 371 I found a single grain of salt. I believe it was Olga who suggested that I wash the book with salt when I saw chocolate stains on the bottom of the brand-new book - and Olga, Jacob, and Alex B. were there to watch me try. In my efforts to reexamine the grain of salt from a missing a-d-pi saltshaker (you see, the saltshaker was missing after that night so for the longest time there were two pepper shakers and only one saltshaker on the dining table before they realized this and took one of the pepper shakers away) I lost it, but a tiny indentation remains between pages 370-371 that prove that the book has been severely abused by moi at TASP. Or "loved" as Alex B. would say.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [9:08 PM]

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