Modern Hell #7: The Hero's Journey
Why do we all have to live in someone else's never-ending juvenile fantasy?
Not long after university, I moved to London and worked in a bookstore near Covent Garden. Most of the time, I was in the shipping and receiving room. That part of the job was pretty mundane – checking in new books and packing overstock and prepping it to ship back to the publishers – except that at least in the back room, we could listen to music and c…