Pat Jordan

I recently purchased Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf from a library book sale. The book seemed a bit older. As it turns out, it probably hasn’t been opened since the mid to late sixties.

As I was paging through it before packing the book for a trip, two pieces of paper fell out. One was a tag for “M. Lowenstein” fabrics. The other was a set of labels for attaching to bundles of letters. You would bundle the local mail and the out of town mail separately and then use these labels to distinguish the two. The date on these is 1965.

Do these have any real value? No, but it’s cool to hold random pieces of life from 40 years ago that probably haven’t been touched since then.

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A couple years ago I ordered the english-language version of Jorge Luis Borges’s Collected Fictions used from the Amazon Marketplace. I found this when I got to the “Garden of Forking Paths” (which is one of my favorite Borges stories):

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It was cool to have that commentary that was more than just notes, but directed to the reader. It adds dimension to the book besides the text on the pages.