Search everywhere for the title and author of a book I remember seeing in the LRB bookshop some months ago, hesitated to buy and now, for reasons that elude me, I must have.

At one point I even consider phoning the LRB - but how could I begin to describe the volume?

Then, I remember, I'd scribbled the details on the back of an old receipt. Would I be able to find it?

Miraculously, there it was among all the recent discarded bits of paper from my wallet.

The book? Ironically enough: I Wrote Nothing Today by Daniil Kharms.