More Fog
My grandmother was an avid collector of fog which she kept, carefully labelled, in small coloured glass bottles underneath her bed. Some of them, such as ‘Jack the Ripper’ and ‘Dr Jekyll’, were extremely rare, and one - ‘Fog de Montmartre’ - would surely have provided a suitable method of clothing une grande horizontale. Apart from its obvious use in preserving the dignity of mountains or ladies of the night, fog can also be effectively deployed in the preservation of certain books, which should be enveloped in it as soon as they are purchased. Books which respond well to this treatment include Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’, Heidegger’s ‘Being and Time’, Sarte’s ‘Being and Nothingness’, anything by Foucault or Derrida, and sundry literary effusions of Sir Roy Strong.