Packing for trips and an odd quote!
Margery is taking a break from studying (kind of). We have a set of Agatha Christie books. One of the books is more note/life/thoughts.
Agatha Christie Mallowan “come tell me how you live”
She writes.. Packing!
There are several schools of thought as to packing. There are the people who begin packing at anything from a week or a fortnight beforehand. There are the people who throw a few things together half an hour before departure. There are the careful packers, insatiable for tissue paper! There are those who scorn tissue paper and just throw the things in and hope for the best! There are the packers who leave practically everything that they want behind! And there are the packers who take immense quantities of things that they never will need!
One thing can safely be said about an archaeological pack-ing. It consists mainly of books. What books to take, what books can be taken, what books are there room for, what books can (with agony!) be left behind. I am firmly convinced that all archaeologists pack in the following manner: They decide on the maximum number of suitcases that a long-suffering Wagon Lit Company will permit them to take. They then fill these suitcases to the brim with books. They then, reluctantly, take out a few books, and fill in the space thus obtained with shirts, pajamas, socks, etc.
Looking into Max's room, I am under the impression that the whole cubic space is filled with books! Through a chink in the books I catch sight of Max's worried face.
"Do you think," he asks, "that I shall have room for all these?"
The answer is so obviously in the negative that it seems sheer cruelty to say it.
Margery and I are currently try to decide what books we can bring in May 2023 to Turkey, Malta, Crete, Cyprus and Patmos (besides our Bibles)!! It’s a real issue!
To see more on Max Mallowan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mallowan