LOST BOOKS

If you have ever had the experience of a book that you have been waiting

for and that usually should arrive within 2-3 days from a neighbouring

friendly European country but is apparently lost, you would know what

disappointment feels like. The most frustrating effect of such an experience

is not to know where the awaited book might have ended up whether it be

in a warehouse lost in the Swiss or Austrian Alps or in between their valleys,

or whether the book was delivered to some unknown person who has

no connection at all with the writer or the expectant reader. For my paternal

grandfather, p a t i e n c e was the greatest virtue. I feel it is Time for me

to adopt it as an important virtue as well.