Marjorie had bought me, some years ago, a book called the Annual Register for some year or other, and it just sort of sat there until last fall, when I hurt my back and I couldn't write games the ordinary way. So I found the book again (as I was doing the shelving that led to me hurting my back; oh irony!) and realized I could write an entire game based on one of these.
Naturally, I went and found a bunch of them online and bought the cheapest ones, particularly with free shipping.
I'm writing a 1988 game for this week and I decided to start with its Annual Register. As I open the book, I see a stamp.
Now, understand, the book is distributed in the USA from the Book Tower in Detroit. It is printed in London. The series was developed originally by Edmund Burke. Yes, that, Edmund Burke.
Here is what the stamp on it says:
Alhaji G.V. Kromah
P.O. Box 4196
Monrovia, Liberia
And inside the book is a receipt I can't make head nor tails or (the handwriting is that really weird French kind and it's in French) from a place in Conakry. Conakry is the capital of Guinea.
Some days, globalization is kind of cute.
