oh! i lost my library copy of rings of saturn in bryan hall when i was at uva three weeks ago, but it was too late for me to go back for it, and jared, my emissary, could not find it the next day. i owned up to the library meek as blake's lamb, got an enormous scorching earful about taking library books out of the country, paid heftily for the loss and a fine, and was that the end of the story? this morning professor tucker emails me to say he is reading a sebald he has found, and was i the careless git who left it about and did i need it back for the library? i am delighted it should be someone i know coming upon the book, and that i had shown him the book earlier, so he knew it possibly belonged to me. and since i had very much wanted him to read it to begin with, and could not find one at kino to bring for him, this is all to the good. after all, having coughed up the fine readily enough, the book can now be said to be mine, and no haste of any kind is necessary in returning it. sai4 weng1 shi1 ma3, she sighs happily.