any book the library owns that is by or about louis macneice is currently in my room.

so is nooteboom's hotel nomada, which i got out of the harvard depository even though i can't read a word of it. and i got mulisch's last call, which i never can find in shops and alderman didn't have.

how i'm going to be able read any of these is quite another question, but that is a minor point.