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and Russell's "Basic Writings", from Routledge in the U.K.

Could you bring me an island girl--twenty to thirty-something in age, with lots of brains and beauty, in a size five to seven? Thanks in advance.

This comes too late for those islands-- wherever they are--since I gather you won't go to "Black Books" to look for these before you ship off.

But, never mind that, since these suggestions will be as useful when you return as they'd be on your vacation--and, if you're going where you could find them, so much the better!

Jacques Monod's book, <i>Chance and Necessity</i> (Penguin published an edition). Bertrand Russell's...