It seems that I keep reading something, awake or asleep. I fell asleep in reading a book and dreamed of reading some book that, though very much displaced and modified, appeared continuous with the book I was reading this afternoon.

Certainly you read Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days in your childhood. No? At least, I did. However, I didn't notice how pecuniary the adventure of Monsieur Fogg is until today. True, the protagonist embarks for the sake of honor, n…