Conversation 15 - Excerpt

Joan: …Could you just take a look in the shelf for me?

Larry: Sure. What’s the title?

J: Uh…“Fundamentals of Bioengineering” or something like that- I forget the exact title. (laughs) That’s why I need it! It’s a sort of green paperback.

L: Huh. Looks like a couple of other folks’ve left their books in here, too. Why don’t they put them back where they got them when they’re through, anyway?

J: Probably just forgot, like me. It’s easy to forget a book in there after you’ve been sitting here going through books for three or four hours at night.

L: Yeah, I guess. I’ve done that, too. (laughs) How about, um, “Engineering Basics”? Is this it? It’s not green, though. It’s kind of, uh, turquoise?

J: Huh! That’s kind of eerie, isn’t it? That’s really pretty close. No, not mine. Nothing else there?

L: Nope. Just a couple of works on Anglo-Saxon grammar….