In Praise of Sorting

I like sorting. Sorting CDs, I'm not too bothered about - iTunes does that for me*. Mostly I like sorting Lego, but that's a different story.

Vinay sent me a link to an art project - sorting books so that the spines read on. I liked the idea and thought about it through the day, I couldn't wait to try it when I got in. So, here's my answer to Vinay.

"U and I, 24 Hour Party People, Seeing Things, In Pursuit of VALIS, Swimming to Cambodia"

Wait, I have more.

* Actually, Sesame sorted all the CDs one day, which was kind of worrying.

The Chums of Chance and the Search for the Dictionary

Say what you will about Thomas Pynchon ("Oh dear, here we go again...") but he does perform a valuable service with his propensity to rescue obscure words from, well, obscurity. It's not often I encounter an English word that I've never seen before*, but it only takes seven pages of Against the Day (You can see I'm positively racing through it) before the reader is confronted with the word "absquatulate" - which I'm assuming means something along the lines of abscond.

But I'm guessing here because it's in no dictionary I own.

* Though living in Denmark every day is a veritable fusillade of words that, not only have I not heard before, but I'm not even sure I even heard properly.