The author ducked under the table to get the pen he'd dropped and none of the
excited teenage girls (none of whom, he thought, were as pretty as Akane) saw
him for neary 30 minutes.  One boy took the book, entitled "Zen, and the Art of
Getting Lost" by Ryoga The Perpetually Self-Misplaced from....

NO! I'm *NOT* going to be that cruel!!