OLD HASTINGS is a book fit for a Queen.

When we were kids we used to skip class and go down to the Army and Navy Department store.

It was and is and will always be such a curious place, such a Dinosaur of Lost Time, such a Liquid Splash of Fertility in an Anguished Sector.

Stay tuned for our upcoming - short but nifty - installation on Past Disguises of this Avenue of Despair.