On Saturday, the vintage copy of Robert Bloch's The Dead Beat I'd ordered online arrived in the mail. Upon receiving it, I began to flip through it, as you do, and I discovered on the inside front cover I found a second story, one separate from the one about murder and madness that I'd been promised. This one was not written by Bloch -- it was written by a previous owner, in pencil. .
You probably won't be able to read that, so allow me to transcribe it:
From now: exercise
From now: exercise
.
to touch toes - start 10 go to 25 - morn & aft
.
12 days - can go for ride or downstairs movie
.
20 days - exercise squeezing buttocks - 10 times - morn & aft
.
25 days resume normal life
.
30 days resume intercourse if no bleeding
.
40 days see doctor
.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but I probably shouldn't laugh. I do hope things turned out okay.
