Then there are the societal oddities. It’s not clear why Callenbach thought that a progressively ecological society would bring with it so much sexual liberation that not only would polyamory be encouraged, but monogamy discouraged.

My copy of Greg Whincup’s The Heart of Chinese Poetry was rescued from a disastrous, disorganized used book store on Yonge Street in Toronto. I’m no longer sure which store, but I can recall the way the alphabetization ran first sideways to the right, then down, then left, then down again, and how books were stacked back-to-face instead of standing beside one another with the spines outward.