We both planned to watch some friends swim in the harbour, and knowing there would be waiting and public transport at various times in the day, we both separately turned up with library books by mainstream best-selling authors—John Grisham and Patricia Cornwall. That's not a huge coincidence, I know. But we could both have brought no book, which is normal in this age of ipods and so on, or brought a second-hand classic, to impress other commuters, which is the normal rebellion to the age of ipods. It's quite unusual that A) we would both bring a book and B) both were from the library, which is a "frugal talent", and C) neither book would be an intellectual status symbol, and we don't care. We thought it was a photographable jelssie moment.
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