On Christmas Eve I was sitting in a chair at
Square Books leafing through a $50
hardcover bio of
Mahler which
I DID NOT BUY. I read about Mahler and his wife Alma visiting a New York City
opium den as a lark, in the company of a "detective with a loaded revolver"! Then I looked at an "Ethnobotanical Dictionary" of "Native American Food Plants" which I also
RESISTED BUYING. BECAUSE I HAD NO MONEY. I noticed that
my famous recommendation shelf had sold its 39th volume:
ANGELA SLOAN by James Whorton, Jr.