Nicole Aschoff's "The New Prophets of Capital" (Verso: 2015) open at the fifth chapter.

View from the bed (where one is rendered supine by malaise) of bookcases in the centre of the room as well as along three walls.

Sidelong view of bookcases to the right of the bed.

Sidelong view of bookcases to the left of the bed.

Whatever the plan was for the day in the #LateImperialLibrary, one has been reduced working from bed in #FictionRoomD. Flesh suit failure.

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Bookcases with volumes of fiction from Joseph Connolly through Don DeLillo organised by author surname, and on the right stacks of books on shelves. A ladder is stood up in front of the bookshelves in the centre of the frame.

Shelves on various bookcases not organised yet; volumes are mostly by authors with surnames starting with L and M.

Reverse view of the double-sided green bookcase in the centre kf rhe room, with other bookcases along three sides along the walls; the shelves in the foreground contain volumes alphabetised by author surname from Iris Murdoch through V.S. Naipaul and Cees Nooteboom to Joyce Carol Oates.

A doublesided bookcase in the centre of a room in which there are bookcases on three sides; the bookcase in the foreground has volumes alphabetised by author surname from Timothy Mo through Toni Morrison to Alice Munro.

Midnight in the #LateImperialLibrary in rainy #NorthJozj: shelving got as far as Don DeLillo in #FictionRoomA, and as far back as Timothy Mo reverse shelving in #FictionRoomD.

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Photograph of two shelves on two bookcases showing some volumes of fiction from Ishmael Reed to Jean Rhys not fully organised on the top left shelf, below which are volumes from João Ubaldo Ribeiro through Richard Rive, Michèle Roberts, and Sheila Roberts, and on the right some Salman Rushdie and Richard Russo.

Two shelves on two boolcases showing volumes of fiction by Joseph Roth and Philip Roth on the left, and Roberto Saviano, Olive Schreiner, and André Schwarz-Bart on the right.

Two shelves on a bookcase, with volumes by Richard Russo througg Vita Sackville-West to James Salter on top, and below those volumes by Preeta Samarasan, George Sand, Boualem Sansal, José Saramago, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marjane Satrapi, and Salvatore Satta.

Tqo shelves on two bookcases, with Philip Roth volumes kn the far left on both those shelves; on the right, books by Roberto Saviano, Karel Schoeman, and Olive Schreiner; below those books by André Schwarz-Bart, Leonardo Sciascia, Walter Scott, Gil Scott-Heron, W.G. Sebald, David Sedaris, Taiye Selasi, and Will Self.

We got as far as Jean Rhys—shelving backwards along the alphabet from Rose Zwi—in #FictionRoomD of the #LateImperialLibrary in #NorthJozi enduring yet another heat wave.

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Room of books stacked on the floor, the sofa, the table, and visibly along three sides on bookcases.

View of books stacked on the floor, table, sofa, and on bookcases along two walls.

View of four bookcases of fiction alphabetised by author surname from Margaret Atwood's "The Year of the Flood" to A.S. Byatt's "The Whistling Woman"; some books stacked on the floor can be seen in the foreground.

View of bookcases not yet organised.

Off to cut ribbons and fling flagons and jeroboams at seagoing vessels, happy to have proceeded as far as Byatt in #FictionRoomA, and back from Zwi to Shafak in #FictionRoomD of the #LateImperialLibrary in #NorthJozi heading to 30 ⁰C . . .

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