Oh books that have no real ending, why do you exist? Is it just to taunt and frustrate me? Did you, Saul Bellow, predict that I would read this, writing it as you did 30 years before my birth, and leave a stupid, jaded ending to what otherwise might have been just an O.K. novella?
Whenever I hear about lichen or facial sandblasting, which, admittedly, is not often, I think of this book. It’s kind of a nice way to introduce this book though: science and beauty. Or, perhaps, the science of beauty.