Melville "Bartlby the Scrivener" & Ramsey "When We Are No More: how Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future" Down "Brilliant Beacons: a History of the American Lighthouse" Koestler "Darkness Before Noon" & "The Invisible Writing" & "The Ghost in the Machine" John Gardner - anything really but October light and the sunlight dialogs in particular.

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