There was much scrabbling in handbags and baskets. The total haul consisted of assorted lunar guides—including six copies of the official handbook; a current best-seller The Orange and the Apple, whose unlikely theme was a romance between Nell Gywnn and Sir Isaac Newton; a Harvard Press edition of Shane, with scholarly annotations by a professor of English; an introduction of the logical positivism of Auguste Comte; and a week-old copy of the New York Times, Earth edition. It was not much of a library, but with careful rationing it would help to pass the hours that lay ahead.
