Happy Labor Day! This one’s a bit of a head-scratcher. But I’ll take a writer laughing no matter the circumstances.
Maybe “historical curiosities” needs to be another subcategory. I guess Mao counts as a writer, too – I was once on cruise ship that had a library with Marx, Engels, volumes of Mao’s poetry, and no other books.
Jacke Wilson 
head-scratcher indeed. mao never struck me as a jolly kind of guy.
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Any idea why these two were hanging out?
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I want to hear more about the ship, the crew, the library …. and the circumstances that placed you in such an intriguing spot in what year?
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It was part of a trip around the world by land and sea (no air) I embarked upon in the mid-nineties. The full story is a good one – that might have to be Object 100!
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Object 100. How you survived around the world trip with Red literature and no air. 😀
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