The Clairvoyant Zoopraxiscope

I have bought, for a dollar, a book by Rafael Alberti called The Owl's Mirror, poems in Spanish translated by Mark Strand, for whom the act of translation acts as a productive muzzle. For seven more dollars, I bought Ishiguro's The Unconsoled, which I have read when lended, but never while owned. Ah what a great, great novel. Say what you want about about the complacency of the big-time novelist, etc--this is a quietly demented book...