Bath Time for Books, Oh!

Bathing & Reading: a Gnomon Chronicles Mystery.

"Bath Time for Books, Oh!" is a short essay by Hiro Protagonist, winner of the the 1992 Essay of the Year 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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  "The unexfoliated skin is not worth shaving" is a philosophical-hygienic assertion by Socrates.

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Fiction cross-reference

• Bed Bath and Books
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Hiro Protagonist (nonfiction)
• Snow Crash (nonfiction)
• Neal Stephenson (nonfiction)
• The Deliverator (nonfiction)

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