Gate 9
They went to Disneyland, they flew Southwest, but they left their book in the San Diego Airport.
It was Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy.
They purchased it used for $8.95, so cheap because it had pink highlighting up to page 50. So expensive because it only had pink highlighting up to page 50.
The book appeared, though, to have been tossed in a lake. All the pages were warped.
The highlighting had been rinsed from the words and into the edges of the pages, like the jagged coastline of an island country at sunset.
