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[[File:Bathing and Reading - a Gnomon Chronicles Mystery.jpg|thumb|Bathing & Reading: a Gnomon Chronicles Mystery.]]"'''Bath Time for Books, Oh!'''" is an essay by [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]].
[[File:Bathing and Reading - a Gnomon Chronicles Mystery.jpg|thumb|Bathing & Reading: a Gnomon Chronicles Mystery.]]"'''Bath Time for Books, Oh!'''" is a short essay by [[Hiro Protagonist (nonfiction)|Hiro Protagonist]], winner of the 1992 World Bathing and Reading Trophy.


== Bath Time for Books, Oh! ==
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* [[Grand Theft Anathem]]
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* [[This Time with Alan Sawflies]]
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== Nonfiction cross-reference ==


* [[Hiro Protagonist (nonfiction)]]
* [[Snow Crash (nonfiction)]]
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Latest revision as of 09:20, 15 January 2023

Bathing & Reading: a Gnomon Chronicles Mystery.

"Bath Time for Books, Oh!" is a short essay by Hiro Protagonist, winner of the 1992 World Bathing and Reading Trophy.

Bath Time for Books, Oh!

I like to read in the bathtub.

Sure does short the lifespan of a paperback novel.

But worth it. Throwing out four or five second-hand paperbacks is a small price to pay.

I can — talking party tricks, here — recite the opening several pages of Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" from memory.

Not that I went to many parties in the first place. And now Covid. And moving from the city to a small town at the edge of the north woods.

Still— I developed "esprit up to here" from reading and bathing.

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