the fountainhead.....

ok, so this blog isn't about ayn rand.....but about an older bound copy given to someone for graduation 1965.....the book was one of many brought into the guest room in plastic bags....likely purchased while my eldest browsed the goodwills on his way home for mother's day.......the inscription wasn't the most interested detail of this book...it was the two letters tucked inside.......from someone named dan to somebody named judye........the name written in a scrawled cursive that had me thinking it was sent to a judge rather than a judye........both missives were handwritten on the lined paper used by stenographers .......both dated in 1966......many references to people who got married but are already getting divorced....not something one would expect from 1966.....but also not the sort of letter that one might think to keep if one was going through one's own things.......judye has probably passed on, and her heirs went through her things unceremoniously.......too bad judye didn't take to keeping $100 bills in her old books.......that would have been a tad sweeter than old letters....but decidedly less entertaining.....so......judye's things have been dispersed....the original copy of the atlas shrugged in another bag was possibly hers as well........maybe i will be able to get through that thick tome if i read judye's 6th printing copy rather than the weighty paperback.......then again...maybe not.......maybe judye never finished it either........wait, wait....there is an owner's manual for a g.e. alarm clock at page 723....a bookmark, perhaps......marking where judye moved on to something more....readable......