An impulse acquisition, of which the department was notified by the institution as the latter departed with it to the eastern coast of Skåne for a day and a half of planning meetings.

The note passed to the department reads:

Heard this was good; on the basis of the first fifty pages, one understands exactly why. Stick it in the catalogue, would you? ‘Autobiography’ will have to do for now, I guess, until you lot finally get round to going full Dewey.

(The department assumes that the Nobel committee will be greatly heartened by this endorsement of their recent decision.)