I am at Florida Atlantic University today, which is in Boca Raton. Even the college students here act like retirees. I’m wasting time, hiding out, looking at a collection of very cool books in the library—the Jaffe Collection of Books at Aesthetic Objects. The books themselves are art, and some of them are spectacular.

This is Keith Smith’s Book 91 (String Book)-—a series of strings runs from front to back, and with each turn of a page, the design and shape the strings create changes. The librarians, who are very cute, do this wonderful presentation, and they point out the sound of the pages turning, the shadows the book casts, the whole experience.

Here’s a book called Would You Vote For a President Who Is a Fake President? by Joan Iversen Goswell, and she uses stamps to talk about President Bush.

It’s very odd to be in Florida on the day Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize, and you cannot help but wonder at how things turn out. No one here thinks George Bush would’ve gotten a call from Oslo this morning, had things turned out differently in 2000.