Mad Dashes

What an auspicious note to 2009. While out shopping with my wife I found a four dollar copy of Peter Ackroyd's The Plato Papers. Four hours later, not only have I finished it but I am filled to bursting with Vietnamese food. I liked the novella (180 pages) and found interesting overlap with Byatt's poets, their speculative missives and the lingering question as to what perseveres.