today was the day

when unusual or unexpected books were in the news.

First there was discussion about the upcoming publication of the working papers of what would have been Vladimir Nabokov's last book, had he lived to turn the working papers into a book and not asked his executors to destroy them.

And second was the story about C G Jung's Red Book having recently been put into the public domain, allowing his disciples to read for the first time the private thought processes that led Jung to develop his theory of archetypes and the collective unconscious. Jung's own handwritten and decorated Red Book has been on exhibition in New York since early October prior to publication of a facsimile and translation of the Book.

It seems a strange coincidence that these two books written so many years ago (30 and 80-90) should become available to the public at almost the same time, both in facsimile, but neither of them perhaps with the author's complete support.