Googling tells me that it was originally published in 1898 and that this copy was probably published nearly a hundred years later, that's longevity for you.
I can't bring myself to unwrap it on account of the potential to be disappointed. Does that point to a poor attitude? Possibly. But to discover that The Greatest Thing Ever Known wasn't would be a bit like finding out that I didn't like Limoncello after all.
Meanwhile new work is emerging from the depths of my consciousness around the idea of air.
