comprising aphorisms on a wide range of subjects including love, sex, poetry, as well as some verses and longer prose fragments, in black, blue, red, and green fibre-tip, with three pages of illustrations including a frontispiece (signed Oscar Epfs and dated 1988) and decorated title page, with a few cuttings laid down with adhesive tape, inscribed on the front endpaper ("for Francoise from Larry Durrell. 1988"), text mostly on rectos only, c.105 pages, plus blanks, dated 1985 to 1988, prebound lined notebook, 8vo, black cloth ("Poems | L.D. | 1988" on upper cover)

"The Greek Cynic Philosopher Demonax has left us a single aphorism. It runs: 'Nobody really wants to be bad. So then why...'"