Sunday, January 15, 2012

This Would Make Me Very Happy

You know what would make me very happy? This:



The very rare, first UK edition of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, published in 1947. When I saw this on eBay, the first thing I thought was, "I NEED THIS." No, I don't even want it. I need it. Like air.

I can't even imagine how the smell of the pages is. It must be intoxicating. The best smell of all. If only they could squeeze all moisture out of the pages and bottle it up, I would buy it and make it my default cologne. I want to walk around smelling like old, used pages from this book. When people come up to me and ask what cologne I wear, I want to say, "It's Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. First edition." The smell will be so intoxicating it'll make people around me undress themselves and have an orgy.

The starting bid is at US$ 999. Yes, a triple figure starting bid for a book.

And I can't afford that. Duh.

2 comments:

Dottie With Dots said...

"The smell will be so intoxicating it'll make people around me undress themselves and have an orgy."

Nice analogy.

Anonymous said...

That was taken from a movie Perfume.