Fun Purchase

A short note today. This is a fun purchase: an edition of the Grolier books that Hugh Lafferty bought for his son. It had a profound influence on RAL’s imagination—he said he remembered almost every word of it—and it’s still a delight to flip through. If you’re interested, you can look it up online here. It is fascinating for those interested in ethno-essentialism as Lafferty learned it. It is a window onto the world that ended.