A Cool Breeze On the Underground
“Simon owned the entire house but rented the ground floor to a respectably married gay couple.After all, Simon explained as they climbed the narrow staircase to his flat, “I spend most of my time in Africa, so it seemed a bit impractical to keep the whole thing.”The flat was small. A sitting room faced the street and ran the whole width of the apartment. A small kitchen ran off this room, and the bed and bath ran off the kitchen.Two floor-to-ceiling windows highlighted the sitting room, and a da...ybed flanked one of the windows. Simon set Neal’s bag down beside this bed. “Here you are, at least until I leave next week. I hope you’ll be comfortable.”“It’s great,” Neal said, then he noticed the walls. His jaw dropped.Simon noticed.“My other vice,” he said. “I like books.”No kidding. The entire room was lined with bookshelves, all of which were jammed with first editions. A card table in the center of the room struggled against the weight of heavy book catalogues. Stacks of books sat in every corner and unoccupied nook.MoreLess
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