This book deals with epiphenomenalism

[venta]

Oooh, I do like a nice mystery.

I got home last night to find a fat packet waiting for me on the doormat. Strange, I wasn't expecting a parcel. Oh, wait, I ordered some EPs online last week... no, too bulky. And sent in a re-used envelope.

My parcel contains a paperback book. No note, no sender. The previous address sticker has been carefully removed from the envelope. There are no bits of paper stuffed in between the pages. There is no postmark to give away a town from which the parcel came.

It's a book I haven't read, but about which I know nothing. I don't remember talking to anyone about it recently. I don't remember having it recommended to me.

I don't recognise the writing on the envelope, though it's someone who knows my full address and can spell my surname correctly (less common than you might think).

I have had anonymous presents before and I heartily approve - everyone should send anonymous, mysterious parcels through the post. Not necessarily to me (though I encourage it ;) but to everyone else. I don't think I've ever received one before where I was genuinely stumped as to where it might have come from.

I'm intrigued. And half-scared that it will turn out to be something quite mundane, like a conversation I have forgotten where someone promised to send it to me.

Are you my mystery person? You? I hope you are. Will you tell me?

Comments

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

Actually, these days I suspect Real Proper Handwriting to be less of a give-away than...oh, I don't know - choice of language, smilies, and so forth... and the content of address labels rather restricts those.

I mean, I can usually recognise family handwriting, and a couple of colleagues' - but most people don't /write/ to me, they email.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I don't get a huge number of letters, but people sending me Christmas or birthday cards usually write addresses rather than printing labels.

Also, in the case of undyingking above, we used to play in the same pub quiz team, so I'm used to reading his writing, written in haste and frequently upside down!

Also also, some people have distinctive handwriting in one way or another. Having now identified the sender, I should have known what his writing looked like but apparently don't.