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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 a short essay by [[Hiro Protagonist (nonfiction)|Hiro Protagonist]], winner of the 1992 World Bathing and Reading Trophy.

== Bath Time for Books, Oh! ==

<blockquote>
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 (nonfiction)|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.  
</blockquote>

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== Fiction cross-reference ==

* [[Bed Bath and Books]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* [[Grand Theft Anathem]]
* ''[[Nuraghemancer]]''
* [[This Time with Alan Sawflies]]

== Nonfiction cross-reference ==

* [[Hiro Protagonist (nonfiction)]]
* [[Snow Crash (nonfiction)]]
* [[Neal Stephenson (nonfiction)]]
* [[The Deliverator (nonfiction)]]


== External links ==

* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1423317620095324162 Post] @ Twitter (5 August 2021) - [[Bed Bath and Books]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/concellation/permalink/359638555083615/?comment_id=359942775053193 Comment] @ Facebook
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1356596063885553664 Post] @ Twitter
* [https://www.facebook.com/GnomonChronicles/posts/2619838584807450 Post] @ Facebook

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