All branches of LAPL are closed, indefinitely, of course. For just such emergencies I always keep one or two interesting-looking tomes on a handy shelf. Today I plucked a book I bought about a year ago, for two bucks, in the bargain cart of the Gift Shop at Mission San Fernando. I had no idea what it was but I liked the cover fabric. I just put it in a paper bag and didn’t look at it until now. It turns out to be about St. Junipero Serra, the apostle of the Californias, and his roots in his home island-province of Mallorca. San Fernando’s Mission library was/is famous; could “binning” it have been a mistake? Or did the Mission librarian just get stuck with all 950 copies cluttering up their shelves?
Patient Reader, I share with you, via the Viral Library, the thrill of first looking through Ingold’s “The House In Mallorca,” when, for the magnificence of the edition, I
“felt like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez [really Balboa] when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific—and all his men
Look’d at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.”
‘to men of goodwill everywhere’ 
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My God. A real book.
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