"Alan" - insta-yarn

The library was around the corner from where Alan worked selling old vinyl LPs to kids from Malaysia working on their Melbourne hip. He'd sometimes pop in on the way to the shop, just on opening hour. Three rows back and to the right, a small brass plaque. Smudged by scholarly fingers. "Alan Geoffrey Seale AO, 1922 to 1998. Historian, biographer and man of letters." And grand-dad who loved Saturday afternoons wrapped in red and black at the Essendon Bombers.