tomorrow

I have another interview coming out, and will post a link to it here, of course. Late Sunday or early Monday.

There’s also a weird errand to run. Somewhere between Iowa and Toronto, in some nondescript hotel, I lost my little paperback copy of Meinong’s Über Gegenstandstheorie, picked up in Berlin back in 2001. In our circles, Meinong is about to come back into fashion thanks to Tristan Garcia, so I was rereading the book but then inexplicably lost it. The book is now out of print, and the best price I could find on a used copy was 75 Euros, but it was worth it.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t waiting there for me at my Frankfurt hotel when I arrived there last week. In fact, the replacement book seemed to have gotten lost in its own right, somewhere in the German postal service which generally seems to be reliable. But now I have to go back to the hotel tomorrow and track it down.

I’ve had a number of lost book issues this year, which reflects my increased absentmindedness. I was really disappointed to lose my original copy of Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern, with multiple layers of comments in the margin in different colors. That happened in February on a Turkish Airlines flight. Simple tiredness was the culprit. I put it in the pouch on the back of the seat, fell asleep on the flight, and when I woke up was too groggy to remember to pick up the book again before exiting the plane.

Whenever I lose a heavily marked-up book like that (which seems to happen a couple of times per decade, though the pace is increasing as mentioned above) I try to look at it as an opportunity to do a fresh rereading of the author in question.