Where Did the Fantasy Go?
I found an Olivia DeBerardinis trading card stuffed in a copy of Jorge Luis Borges' Labyrinths today. The card was bookmarking the story entitled "The God's Script." One of the voyeuristic moments of used books is finding trinkets from the lives of other people when you acquire their books. You wonder if there is any significance to the item found and its placement in this book, on this page. Occasionally I'll even consider the idea of messages being passed through books in this fashion, coded transmissions which will only be useful to those who understand the placement of all the pieces. Like a message left on the front page of the newspaper by Yu Tsun for his masters. Occasionally, I'll wonder about these things.
This conjunction of items, though, makes me smile. This copy has been in my library for more than ten years. I don't think I've opened it since 1993. There. Girls, God, and fantastic literature: a snapshot of what was on my mind a decade ago.