barnacles....

ok, so i spent the better part of the day reading the taxonomy of barnacles by galt niederhoffer.......as one should expect, galt has a sister named rand.....and thankfully none of the other 4 sisters have names that can be traced back to classic fiction or novelists.......the book is the kind one cannot put down.....hence a single day read for plot......which must be followed by several days to breathe in the nuances.......i had skimmed the nytimes book review during lunch on monday....and was taken aback to walk into the library and find the book on the new arrivals shelf just before i picked up cayle.........a decent read for a first book......reminded me of the royal tennanbaums in eccentricities.....kind of makes me want to read darwins origin of the species..........now that i know that darwin first theory on evolution involved barnacles rather than finches.......who knew?............