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In keeping with the tradition, I am tearing through the travel and art books I’ve bought this summer and autumn on Sunday afternoons, Monday evenings, and occasionally Thursday evenings as I “watch” football games (which is more and more meaning I look up from my book to check the score from time to time). The weather has again turned to autumn at Nogglestead, and I like nothing better than lighting a fire (okay, a Duraflame log<\/a> as I have fallen back into all of my dollars-a-day habits<\/a> even as I have left my full-time position<\/a>), watching a little football, going on parenthetical digressions in my writing, and looking at pictures in books.<\/p>\nThis short souvenir edition describes Notre Dame, that<\/em> one, in the middle of the Parisian river. It has a pretty heavy text to photo ratio, and the photos aren’t actually captioned, so you have to kind of guess where the text refers to some of the artifacts depicted. The text includes a little history and a bunch of step-by-step, here’s what you see on the tour text which might help jog your memory if you took the tour, but if you have not, the words are wasted. And not helpful.<\/p>\n Still, a bit of an insight into the setting for The Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/a><\/em>–a book that this<\/em> book mentions on more than one occasion as perhaps the savior of the then-declining church.<\/p>\n