I was looking on the bookshelves for a book that wasn’t there. I searched high and low only to find it had disappeared, but as I searched I was distracted by an old favourite. I took A River Sutra from the shelf and briefly considered immersing myself in its healing waters, but I went on looking. Next I saw Minnow On The Say and then it just happened, wherever I looked there were more tributaries, and so I stitched together a river of waterborne books.
I’ve solved the mystery of the missing book! Great writing, can we do a swap for ‘Waterlog’?
I was looking for But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer. Did you take it with you?
Thanks for returning it, but I can no longer read it! It’s wrinkled and bloated and waterlogged. Did you drop it in the ocean?