Happiness and Books

August 26, 2005

We ditto Michael Blowhard's praise of happiness from books. We took on vacation every book of Donald E. Westlake we could find, and bought another one on the road.

He leaned forward...to switch on the radio. Soon, nasal laments of untrustworthy lovers met in bars filled the car with the sorrows of trying to get through life while unutterably stupid.

--From a page chosen at random (67) from a volume chosen at random (Put a Lid on It, paperback, 2002.)

Via Marginal Revolution