We travel to southwest Florida for the weekend, visiting my parents, helping to entertain a tidal wave of relatives. At one point on Sunday I find myself examining the old, filled-up bookcases in the back corner of my parents’ garage, presumably kept out there enclosed in the hot damp Floridian air in order to encourage the books’ disintegration into swamp peat. I liberate a number of old paperbacks of interest. Four slim Richard Brautigan books — Trout Fishing in America, In Watermelon Sugar, Revenge of the Lawn, and The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster. Lucy Herndon Crockett’s The Magnificent Bastards. A Viking Portable of Jonathan Swift. A Viking Portable of Boswell and Johnson. Penciled on the page-edges of the Swift is: SWIFT. Penciled on the page-edges of the Boswell and Johnson is: SAM.